What is "helmsmen"

Usage examples of "helmsmen".

But despite Mitchell's hopes to keep the race out of state arenas, military and government-employed Helmsmen competed regularly.

Bean counters didn't see things the way Helmsmen did—they weren't supposed to.

So many jobless Helmsmen were idle on the streets of Avalon, and so few ships were still in commission, that only the well connected found jobs.

In deep space, he quickly established himself as one of the base's premiere Diagnostic Helmsmen, although he often found his piloting talents (as well as his courage) stretched as much by untried starships as they had been by Leaguers during the war years.

Most of the other Helmsmen either stayed home or concocted some excuse to watch broadcasts on one of the base's huge, three-dimensional monitors.

He swiveled his chair to face the two Helmsmen and tapped the yellow scrap of plastic with a long, slim ringer.

He put Kondrashin onto her gravity foot with the feather-light touch most good Helmsmen got one time in twenty.

Both Helmsmen gallantly completed the race in their treacherous machines, but the first was seriously burned when the new insulation failed to keep stray energy from the flight bridge, and the second ran at no more than three-quarters power settings after a wildly erratic takeoff.

Both Helmsmen found the graceful racing machines were ser-endipitously even better than their predecessors with a lighter, more accurate feel at the controls.

Closest to the door was Jill Tompkins, Chief of Operations, squired by one of the Helmsmen who'd survived the Otnar'at raid with me.

Helmsmen naturally enjoy talking to Helmsmen, and normally I'm no exception.

Easy for someone like me to forget this kind of flying, where doughty Helmsmen and crews have only their own skill and courage to get them through the perilous wartime skies.

Ashore, I set up rides back to FleetPort 19 for the crew of poor TG 39 and placed Jennings in temporary command of Montroyal until Transport Command could send out a couple of Helmsmen to take over.

The Basilisk's flight bridge, on the other hand, was nearly as large as that of Delacroix's Yellow Bird, and the first row of consoles seated two Helmsmen and one of the three Systems Officers.

Indifferently Brim passed time watching the Bearish Helmsmen as they broadcast messages via KA'PPA (instantaneous, character-only communications in which data arrives everywhere in the Universe simultaneously) to military route coordinators at various control stations orbiting the beacon stars that marked their route.