Rudder in a sentence

According to the official accident report, after the first officer made his initial rudder pedal input, he made a series of alternating full rudder inputs.

Again, the skin had become separated from the structure of the rudder, which led to most of the upper rudder becoming separated in-flight.

Anderson 2004, p. 134. They hinged the rudder and connected it to the pilot's warping "cradle", so a single movement by the pilot simultaneously controlled wing-warping and rudder deflection.

Ericsson had made the mistake of placing the rudder forward of the propellers, which made the rudder ineffective.

Most aircraft require increased pressure on the rudder pedals to achieve the same amount of rudder control at a higher speed.

The single rear rudder is steerable; it replaced the original fixed double rudder.

This continued for at least 20 seconds, until 9:15:56, when the stress of the first officer's repeated rudder movements caused the lugs that attached the vertical stabilizer and rudder to fail.

Upon examination, the steering gear controlling the rudder had been improperly installed and Rowland offered to realign the rudder, which he estimated to take only a day.

When beached or in shallow water the tiller was moved to the lower hole, the blade rope was slackened and the rudder head pulled up so the rudder could operate in shallow waters.

Zinc is also used to cathodically protect metals that are exposed to sea water. citation A zinc disc attached to a ship's iron rudder will slowly corrode while the rudder stays intact.

MV Hebridean Isles has re-entered dry dock in Birkenhead after last week’s sea trials which identified a rudder fault, and will be deployed to the Islay service once trials are successfully completed.

Rudder, a former middle and long distance champion, was elected when the body held their election of office bearers recently in New Amsterdam.

Three of Rudder’s ten children have passed away.

Three orcas, the large black-and-white dolphins also known as killer whales, worked in tandem; a large orca rammed the boat from the side while two smaller ones gnawed at the rudder until it was destroyed and the yacht was taking on water.

Young people who had been caught up in the magic of his campaign were going to have the course of their lives changed by the pandemic, without a rudder.

After they knocked out the Bonhomme William’s rudder, the animals spent the next few hours charging into it which caused the vessel to buckle under the pressure and sink.

But without its late fleet admiral, mates Juan Soto and Blake Snell, and, as we speak, is kind of adrift, without a rudder for new skipper Mike Shildt, without a known personality, which is yet to come.

De-Lisser, like Rudder, initially worked in junior roles at NatWest bank.

He continued, “Without a proper Strategic Plan, these questions cannot be answered in a systematic way; and our approach to answering them would be no different from that of a ship with no compass and rudder set in sail for a particular destination.

Only a tiny percentage of the close to 700 boats they’ve “interacted” with have met that fate, although approximately half of the ones at the center of the encounters have suffered notable damage (usually to the rudder or hull).