Word: sideslip
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...French Kiss came from the labs of Dassault-Breguet, the French aircraft manufacturer famous for its Mirage fighter jets. A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip...
...changes which will affect Harvard in the next three weeks of Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing races is team scoring. No longer is the combined performance of the top three finishers of each team to count. No longer will coach Peter Carter be yelling at his fifth man, "Snowplow! Sideslip! Stem! Just stand up! If you race I'll kill you!" after two more daring Harvards have already levelled spectators and explored the woods...
...Pilot Joe Walker last week gunned his rocket-powered X-15 to the greatest speed any airplane has ever achieved-an imagination-defying 3.920 m.p.h. In the nose of the X-15, a grapefruit-sized electronic wizard familiarly known as "the Q-ball" gauged the basic critical factors-direction, sideslip, friction-and told Joe Walker that he could safely press for the record. Said Walker, with affection: "The Q-ball is a go-no-go item. Only if she checks...
...sergeant observer in clearing the plane was the primary cause of my injury; such was not the case. The fire, caused by a severed fuel line, started when we were at an altitude of approximately 1,500 feet. It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate. Lacking intercom in those days, I signaled the sergeant to bail out; the only delay on his part was difficulty in getting out of his safety harness and clearing...
...over the target right on time and spent 20 minutes before dropping all our eggs. Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time. . . . The Flak was relatively light. I guess the Jerries must have been holding it for the poor fellows caught in the lights. We saw one Halifax caught in a cone of about 50 lights with the Jerries pumping streams into the apex until it exploded and slowly spiraled down...