Word: ruddering
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...overcome torque or sideways twist created when 1) the air's resistance to the rotating screw makes the engine tend to rotate the plane itself, 2) the whirling air stream behind the propeller hits the lifting surfaces at a skew angle. Torque must be counteracted by ailerons and rudder, especially in small planes whose bodies-like those of small submarines-do not in themselves provide enough stable ruddering...
...Most strain is on the extensor muscles of the leg, least on the flexors ; for example, the rudder pedal is kicked, not pulled. Cadets are trained to lie on their backs, kick their legs in bicycle movements...
...Bolles turned his interest from one part of the shell to another, he used one part of the shell it another, he used the searchlight with which his coaching launch is equipped to advantage, stopping at one man for a moment, moving on to another, sweeping back to the rudder post to see what "check" the shell was developing, and then back again to the eight be-sweatered sweepswingers...
...some fortune") were not much older. Proceedings were secret and no minutes were kept, But Franklin revealed some of the study topics. Samples: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard? . . . What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed? ... Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" For excessively dogmatic answers, members had to pay fines...
...sighted several times, flying on ultra-high reconnaissance. But not until last fortnight, when one pancaked in Kent nearly undamaged, had the British a chance to examine a "Meph" carefully. It had the markings of Hermann Goring's Yellow Nose Squadron, and 22 red stripes on its yellow rudder, denoting victories. But what got the British wind up was its engine: a 3,000-h.p. monster capable of lifting the fighter nearly to 40,000 feet. Since in air battle the plane on top always has an advantage, the "Meph" is a formidable opponent. The British talked vaguely about...