Word: yaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shepard: Pitch is O.K. Switching to manual yaw...
Shepard was testing the capsule's maneuvering system, which can control changes of pitch, yaw or roll by emitting spurts of gas. Every movement was completed with ease...
Some three miles north of the airport, in the village of Berg, Mrs. Joseph Verhoeven saw the plane pitch and yaw. "It was so low," she said, "I could see people looking at me from inside the plane and gesturing. I held my hand up to them. Then the airplane stopped right in the air. It was as if it were hanging there on something. The whole thing was shaking terribly, as if it were struggling to get started moving again. But something was holding it back. Then an amazing thing happened. The plane began to point...
...alternations of suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made. Based on a bestselling Bengali novel by Bibhuti Bannerji, the picture was written, produced and directed as three separate pictures by a 39-year-old Calcutta film buff named Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye). Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic in the Indian tradition-as a modern...