Word: ruddering
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Sighted in mid-Pacific by a ship of the American President Lines, President Pierce, was a waterlogged, barnacle-covered piece of driftwood resembling the rudder of the Chinese junk in which globe-trotting Author Richard Halliburton was lost with all hands last year...
Down over his balding head Igor Sikorsky pulled his too-small hat. With his right hand on the control stick, his feet on the rudder pedals, he grasped with his left hand the lever that controls the lift of the motor by varying the pitch of the blades. Mechanics (who had held the helicopter with ropes while Designer Sikorsky learned to fly it) backed away. He pulled back the pitch control lever. Into the air jumped Sikorsky's bug. Fifteen to 20 feet off the ground it came to a stop, hung there. Sikorsky moved the control stick forward...
...rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny propellers in an outrigger tail, used for stabilizer, rudder and elevators, whistled into shimmering discs...
...coxswains of the Yardling and Varsity crows have likewise found great causes for insomnia among the waterbugs, but the Crimson men have a little bit quicker reaction, and a great deal better appreciation of the purpose of the metal object on the stern of each shell, the rudder...
...matter how flown. Other specifications: pilots must be able to slam on brakes at any landing speed without fear of nosing over; the plane must be manageable on the ground in winds up to 30 miles an hour; preferably it should be steered like an auto mobile, have no rudder bar. The only other thing expected of it, joked veteran fliers, was that it should mind the baby...