sideslip
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It was almost as though, if he moved fast enough and squeezed in enough events, he might sideslip the 18th of June altogether and proceed to the next golden stage, untouched and untallied.
From Time ● Jun. 19, 2012
As a parked Chinook from Singapore fires up its engines, two Australian army Hueys swoop in a few feet off the ground and sideslip into their designated parking slots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was ready to throw her plane into a sideslip if a searchlight caught her, a flight maneuver that allows you to dive very fast and steeply without spinning.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
We rocketed down the trough, then sideslipped a three-foot snowdrift on the edge of a muddy trail for the last two miles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
Looking out of a window, I saw earth, sky, planes above, planes below, all mixed with ack-ack puffs as our pilot twisted, turned, sideslipped.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the 50th mile passed, the eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last time you sideslipped into a barrel while hanging ten: Last weekend in front of my house-backside, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
She tipped and sideslipped around the big tree and dropped the pigeon.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in.
From Time Magazine Archive
Md., sideslipping the plane to blow the flames away from the cabin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Koontz joined them, incredulously surveying the damage that Bernabe, by parking in the mud, getting stuck, rocking his vehicle, sideslipping and whatnot, had done.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
