Word: rudders
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...axis. Each wing is equipped with a propeller, shaft-driven by a central Wasp motor mounted horizontally in the axis. Also to each wing is rigged a controllable "flipper," comparable to an aileron. Beneath the entire assembly is a tiny two-place gondola with nearly conventional controls, landing gear, rudder...
...Parker '32, E. L. Millard Jr. '31, Lawrence Grinnell Jr. '31, Amor Hollingsworth Jr. '31, J. A. Luetkemeyer '33, A. D. Robertson '33, J. H. Nickerson '33, and S. B. Wolcott Jr. '33. T. H. Dickerson '33, coxswain of the second Freshman eight, will hold--the rudder ropes in the combination; no other seatings have yet been definitely determined...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has had the misfortune to be denied the right to a Policy by yesterday's CRIMSON. Hereafter it is to drift on the sea of available plays without a rudder, governed in its choice of a production now by its set-designers, now by its stage crew, chiefly by chance. Apparently it may have no lasting standards or continuity of purpose, but must be reborn for each performance...
...tempest's end, U. S. citizens home for Christmas disembarked, sleepless, stiff, scared, after the worst crossing any of them had ever remembered. Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor...
...wind-driven electric motor gives them energy. If the airplane tilts up, down or sideways, it in effect moves around the stabilizer. When it does so, it makes electrical contacts which act through electromagnets to return the machine to level keel and original direction, by mechanically activating the ailerons, rudder and elevator, all together or separately...