Word: yaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to move forward, he merely moved the stick forward; when he wanted to go into reverse, he pulled the stick back; he moved it right or left for sideward motion. In his right hand, he clasped a notched pistol grip that controlled smaller thrusters used to pitch, yaw or roll the Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide rule and a heavily crosshatched plotting...
...they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane down to the proper landing point on the runway. The human pilot merely controls the plane's roll and yaw. Only at touchdown does he push a button on the steering column to disengage the automatic system...
...between a limited number of spoken words. The Honeywell men figured that a vocabulary of ten normal words was enough to give all needed commands. When the astronaut wants his gas jets to turn him to one side, say the engineers, all he should have to do is say "yaw" into his microphone. If he wants to make a fast turn, he will say "yaw, yaw, yaw." Direction of the yaw will be determined by saying "plus" or "minus," and the computer that is listening will tell the mechanism to execute the command...
...deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident. No matter what the ocean bottom yields, the cause of Flight 663's plunge to the sea will not be known for weeks-if ever...
...maws. They are rigged with movable walls, ports and bypass doors to keep the entering air at the right pressure and temperature. The engines are grouped close to the centerline of the plane so that if one of them fails, the loss of thrust will not cause a dangerous yaw...