Crossword clues for sideslip
Wiktionary
n. (context aviation English) A flight manoeuvre that moves the aircraft sideways without turning it. vb. (context aviation English) To perform a flight manoeuvre that moves the aircraft sideways without turning it.
WordNet
a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air [syn: slip]
[also: sideslipping, sideslipped]
Usage examples of "sideslip".
Corran let the X-wing sideslip right, but not before the eyeball had taken a shot at him.
Shriek waver and sideslip just a little, a successful bid to reduce the amount of laserfire converging on him from ahead.
He held his breath, sure that she was going to disappear before he could sideslip down to where she waited.
He began to twitch the X-wing yoke, to sideslip him around the obstacle, but instead switched weapons controls back to proton torpedo and fired on it.
The third time he went over, he did so in a hair-raising sideslip, so that he got a good view.
This was, instead, an encounter with the unknown, a breach of reality, a sudden sideslip out of the normal world into the uncanny.
Toward one of the largest of them, it dips, then yaws and sideslips like a falling leaf into a paved, palm-lined courtyard where fountains play with rainbows.
Han not sideslipped and allowed the tiny, high-speed fighter to roar through the space he had just occupied.
The mataloks sideslipped, desperately trying to avoid the streams of destruction, but the rubble blasts tracked them, followed them, wore them down.
In a smooth motion, his X-wing lifted, sideslipped out from under the docking bay roof, and turned the direction opposite that from which the warriors had come.
Wedge sideslipped and continued to fire into the grasses, setting them ablaze, kicking up gouts of dirt and steam.
He continued firing at the distant Jaina Solo and now sideslipped to starboard, distancing himself from Charat Kraal, indicating in no uncertain terms his intent to continue following his own warrior spirit, even if it meant disobeying direct orders.
Wedge sideslipped, rotated to change his profile, juked and jinked to keep incoming plasma and grutchin fire off him.
She sideslipped and turned in the air with a lurch that sent his stomach where his heart had been, and put his heart in his throat.
The world sideslipped before his eyes, wavering like an object seen through clear running water.