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Usage examples of gimbal.

If they could not get the beta gimbal assembly to unlock, they could not reorient the solar panels toward the sun, they be starved for power.

The EVA crew never had a chance to complete the gimbal repairs, so they remain in power down.

A cluster of screens mounted over his head, inside the gimbal system, came to life and showed him the outside, all around and fore and aft.

A lantern on a gimbal in the center of the room gave mellow light that swayed as the barge was moved by the water responding to gusts of air and wakes upon the river left by passing craft.

There was a couch in gimbals, and there were control pedestals rooted in the tapering hull and converging on the couch.

The funnel moved lightly on its gimbals, and the entire assembly spun smoothly on its turntable frame.

There were two folding tables on gimbals, two vinyl-covered sofas bolted to the deck, a stack of plastic chairs, racks of paperback books and, on a shelf, a television set and VCR.

Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing desk, I did not see him anywhere till he stepped out quietly from behind the coats hung in the recessed part.

The arms turned inward on themselves, rotating on universal gimbals so that the evacuated hold yawned before them, and the cradle came up on its tracks to meet them.

Coal-oil lamps in gimbals cast a warm light on the dark wood fittings and on the leather upholstered chairs.

And all the engineers marveled over the construction of the city itself, with particular marveling reserved for the re- markable Terratin city gimbal support system.

She heated the point of her blade in the smoky flame of the lantern in the gimbal above her head, ran the blade down the seams of the shift in her lap, and the nits popped and frizzled.

He imagined phone lines singing as the ground controllers and the crew worked through comprehensive checklists covering the propulsion systems, gimbal systems, gyros, computers, life support, spreading their findings out across the country.

So we've made a whole stack of modifications: we increased the oxidizer inducer diameter, strengthened the gimbal seat and the cross block, strengthened the high pressure ducts and the thrust chambers, beefed up the turbine exhaust manifold, improved the heat exchanger, increased the power of the turbine.

Eventually he found a boot, with a bit of ankle and gimbal joint protruding from its top.