What is "rudders"

Usage examples of "rudders".

By the twin rudders and two engines the recognition experts soon identified them as Army B-25 Mitchell medium bombers.

Davis dived first, Shaw following, smoothly, precisely, ignoring the tracers reaching up like broomstraws and the heavy flak bursts that jarred the Dauntlesses, with stick and rudders lining up the growing yellow deck beginning to slide around to starboard.

It was an uncomfortable dive, hanging hard against the seat belt, the negative G tending to lift feet from the rudders and pull hands from stick and throttle.

The basic flight controls, stick, rudders and throttle he could handle adequately, Jmt he had trouble with trim tabs and essential gadgets in more remote corners of the cockpit.

They pressed in fast and close, feet solid on rudders, hands tight on the sticks and throttles, hissing the rockets off first and then opening with machine guns.

The combined aeroplane and dirigible balloon, a most wonderful traveler of the air, swung around, and then, with the deflection rudders slanted downward, came on with a rush.

To insure a more sudden descent, deflecting rudders were also used, similar to those on an airship.

Coombs looked through plexiglas down the trailing tube of fuselage, between the two rudders, watching the Zeros coming in like lithe sharks.

As the guns crashed before them and the terrible orange light flared, he walked the rudders from side to side.

The rafts would need crossbraces, rudders, and shelters, all of which would require wood.

They used hand adzes to fashion rudders, prepared standardized crosspieces that would go on later, and used rope to bind the logs together.

When he saw Peter coming down through the hatch, he pointed to the wheel that controlled the rudders and then went back to his task.