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Another unit of 225 Rangers under Lieut. Colonel James Rudder was dispatched to Pointe du Hoc, a 100-foot-high promontory four miles west of Omaha and ten miles east of Utah. Their assignment: to knock out six heavily defended German 155-mm guns that could command both beaches. They fired rocket-propelled grappling hooks up to the top of the cliff and then began the fearful climb up ropes and ladders. The Germans splattered the oncoming Rangers with machine-gun fire, grenades, even boulders, and they managed to cut several of the ropes on which the Rangers were inching...
When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz lost control of its rudder and ran aground off the Brittany coast of France on the night of March 16, 1978, the result was history's biggest oil-tanker spill as well as the most costly maritime accident ever. The $15 million ship and its $24 million cargo of Middle Eastern crude were lost in the icy waters. In addition, the 68 million gal. of oil created a slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long and polluted 130 miles of the scenic French coast, raising the cries of environmentalists around the world. Last...
...trim tab of the book's title is the small, hinged section on a ship's rudder that helps to steer the vessel. Willens, a real estate developer and onetime textile machinery manufacturer, contends that businessmen are America's trim tab. "Business is the most flexible and change-oriented segment of our society," he writes, and "possesses inordinate power to influence the direction of our national enterprise...
...operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly. The airstream passing through the turbine generated enough pressure to activate the part of the hydraulic system that controls the flight spoilers, rudder and ailerons. This allowed Pearson, who happened to be an experienced glider pilot, to control the craft. The turbine also provided sufficient power to allow the pilot to release the landing gear, which then fell into place automatically...
...prolong the flight another day or so in hopes of homing in at Kennedy. They involved some brief, balky behavior by one of the shuttle's three auxiliary power units (APUs). The small engines provide the hydraulic pressure for operating the craft's landing gear, flap, braking rudder and other flight-control systems. The APUs have been troublesome on previous flights...