Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail and rudder control surfaces for steering, pilots steer with the wheel brakes...
...coming Big Three meeting, said Mowrer, President Roosevelt will have "another and perhaps final opportunity to steer United Nations' collaboration toward a policy acceptable to everybody and not merely to the Russians...
...matter delegates walked warily. Uppermost in every mind was the thought that the previous wartime coalition Government had not survived the postwar election, that Prime Minister Winston Churchill's recent performance on Greece had probably weakened his following. In framing its policy on Greece, Labor tried to steer a tactful middle course between upholding the Coalition Government and disavowing Churchill. Its resolution demanded an agreement with ELAS, not an ultimatum...
Landing is accomplished by means of radio. In a normal instrument landing, a pilot aligns his plane on a radio signal beam from the field and steers his plane along it. In the new system, the radio signals themselves steer the ship; the pilot need not touch the controls. One instrument, the "localizer," guides the plane toward the middle of the runway; another, the "glide path," controls its descent. The instruments can pick up a plane 15 to 35 miles away at 3,000 feet altitude and glide it in to a perfect three-point landing...
Through the Hard Years. General Chen relieved General Ho Ying-chin, 55, who had held his post since 1930. Minister O. K. Yui relieved H. H. Kung, 63, the Generalissimo's brother-in-law, who is now in the U.S. These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...