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    rudder


    1. A nose rudder began to bite a little soft sand and they began to come around much more quickly, accompanied by painful groans from the coupling knuckles that joined the raft sections together


    2. The rudder broke free of the sand and the ship continued it's two mph drift, downstream, into the next bend


    3. There was a big rudder change along with it and the ship almost lurched to the right


    4. A tremendous wave broke the stern, tore the rudder off, and left them at the mercy of the gods


    5. Oh it had a mast and rudder, but half the time they were rowing it, and at the oars was the only spot on board wide enough for two to sit abreast


    6. After Father lashed the rudder, we were able to row in the direction of Aunt Melissa’s


    7. We set our rope-bound rudder toward the isle


    8. She was like a boat without a sail and a rudder, being blown all over


    9. Fysto was fairly certain that if he didn’t regain control of the rudder within the next five minutes, the ship’s mast would snap and it would sink not long after


    10. “Use the rudder to turn it and the ailerons to hold it level,” I yelled

    11. “Watch this and analyze what I’m doing,” as I pulled her up into a rudder turn, then rotated left over the top and went plummeting downward


    12. That and a heck of a lot of hard right rudder kicked in frantically as the power came on and off


    13. “Use the rudder, Snotty, use the rudder


    14. I had to teach the pilots to turn with the rudder and keep the plane level with the ailerons


    15. Keeping the flag’s position firmly in mind, I dipped the nose and shoved in major rudder, reducing throttle with my left hand


    16. Theoretically he could fly with only rudder and elevator…right? So that’s why we never made a claim


    17. the rudder? Something


    18. “Target one is destroyed, target two appears to have rudder control only


    19. her mouth on the moving apple, his brown spread rudder


    20. Conservatives have to get out of the bottom of the boat and take over the rudder and sails and point the bow into calmer waters

    21. It was steered by a central sternpost rudder that the crew adjusted by means of a large lever on a lower deck


    22. However, we do have one navigating tool, like a rudder on the seas


    23. The rudder was balanced and could be raised and lowered


    24. threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the


    25. climb out, one of the rudder cables wrapped around its control mecha-


    26. nism, locking the rudder in the full left position


    27. As they taxied in Parker said, "There seemed to be an awful lot of fast stick and rudder movement until we slowed down


    28. "Oops," he said as he lost it with a too-sudden rudder movement


    29. Over the intercom came a string of commands: "Hold it off, hold it off, a little more, get your rudder in there, that's it, pull your power off, now ease it down, and stay on the rudder


    30. 1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar like a first-rate pilot steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death

    31. The O-1E went down in the grass and the wheels slammed into the ground as Parker simultan�eously pulled on Travers, worked the control stick, and fiercely punched the rudder pedals first one way then the other trying to maintain lateral control and still get the airplane back into the air


    32. Since it was inboard, the loss of thrust didn't require much rudder offset to maintain a straight heading


    33. During the postflight inspection they found the two holes in the rudder


    34. Court helped Toby move the stick and rudder pedals around while they shot two touch-and-go practice landings and one full stop


    35. By kicking right rudder he could see the basket


    36. On the rudder were the letters RM showing it to be a Tahkli plane


    37. They would fly such a tight formation their feet would vibrate on the rudder pedals as their planes were buffeted by the exhaust from the tailpipe of the plane in front


    38. Helm: the helm proper is called the “tiller,” but the term is also used to mean the rudder and the ship"s wheel


    39. Shift the rudder: order to swing the rudder an equal distance in the opposite direction


    40. Of course, she can’t use the same wings and rudder of her

    41. But, this may be that the wings and rudder are


    42. the rudder of the Church


    43. THAT LIKE WITH A SAILING BOAT IF THE SAILS ARENT UP THEN THE RUDDER DOESNT WORK 3O WHAT


    44. RUDDER PROVIDED THEY lT WITH YOUR PURPOSE AND WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF WHAT YOU LOVE


    45. The wheel and rudder were close by and I was surprised


    46. The rudder was


    47. activated an ultraviolet communications laser mounted in the med ship’s rudder focused on the relay satellite


    48. The poor outboard petrel embedded just above the rudder was flapping ninety to the dozen, letting out the occasional squawk of protest, but Ambrosius was in the mood for speed and he kept the throttle threateningly tight round the unfortunate bird's neck


    49. Mungo was at the front of the boat, clearing the weed out the way with the end of his harpoon, with Stan at the back trying to untangle the rudder


    50. I knew only that I exceeded eight knots on the way down, because my rudder was useless, and I guessed that I slowed to three knots in the troughs before I turned to face the next wall of water





































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    "rudder" definitions

    a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes


    (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel