Word: yaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other officers elected were Harrel E. Conner Jr. '02 as brotherhood chair; Desmond R. Jardine '02 as social chair and Yaw D. Osseo-Asare '02 as historian...
Peter C. Bright '01 was chosen as the organization's new vice president, Isaac J. Weiler '02 was elected secretary, and Jaime A. Williams '01 will serve as treasurer. Other officers elected were Harrel E. Conner Jr. '02 as brotherhood chair; Desmond R. Jardine '02 as social chair and Yaw D. Osseo-Asare '02 as historian...
...move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back to control its tendency to yaw from side to side. They devised a pulley system that warped the shape of the wings in midflight to turn the plane and to stop it from rolling laterally in air. Recognizing that a propeller isn't like a ship's screw, but becomes, in effect, a rotating wing, they...