Word: yaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like many another seadog since the days of Salamis, Fleet Admiral Nimitz seemed to yaw a little in the shifting winds of press conferences. Example: of the atomic bomb he said, "It is a weapon which will undoubtedly add to the complexities of field commanders...
...sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
Phil "How're yaw'll" Masquelette, roommate of "the Light," currently has the eagers for a Pine Manor miss, says Dame Rumor. Red Summers, authority on anything but women, claims to have been hitched early in his career, but Kewpie O'Donnell is telling a great untruth. Tunstall "Pal" Perry, uncoverer of much information, seeks any help that can be offered him by anyone. If you have any old information that you are about to dispose of, see "Pal"--he wants...
...April 1941 issue to U.S. aircraft production. This one ran to 240 pages, and was crammed with figures of flight, with colored photographs of fighting planes in the air, with charts showing how bombs drop, with maps of the world's airlines and with intricate diagrams, explaining yaw, windstreams and something called a "compressibility burble" which was said to be essential to flight. The U.S. in the air seemed to be equal to any test put upon it: the U.S. had enough technical experience, enough trained men, enough facilities for research, to meet any challenge. And so-though many...