rudder
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The dive and recovery subjected the aircraft to extreme speed and gravitational forces that snapped off part of its tail rudder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
A nation without stories is a boat without a rudder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Such systems, which do away with the need for a rudder, are already used on smaller CalMac ferries, making them highly manoeuvrable.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
As you observe their big goofy head navigate toward the stick you threw in the river, you’ll notice their otter tail serving as their rudder as they swim back to you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
The nail would help him keep the rudder firmly in position.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
They have also been developing stronger actuators—machines that pull and push and take the place of pilots’ muscles to move planes’ rudders and other flight-control surfaces in conditions where humans would otherwise have to intervene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But until 30 September, it was stuck in Belfast due to problems with its rudders and gearbox.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
“It's pretty powerful and kind of metaphorical that you see these orcas going after rudders and sort of disabling the technology that human beings use to control marine space.”
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2024
Back in May, the stories from off the Iberian Peninsula of orcas taking apart the rudders and propellers of yachts — and, in a couple of incidents, ramming them — were both alarming and intriguing.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
He makes things too: paper boxes, crude biplanes, toy boats with working rudders.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
