Sentence examples for hand lever from inspiring English sources

A small hand lever controlled the forward elevator, which provided pitch control and some extra lift.

An electric push-button hand-shifter eliminates foot-shifting, and a single hand lever operates both front and rear brakes.

The engine could not be throttled; a hand lever only allowed the pilot to open or close the fuel line.

As in the first Wright flyer, the pilot lay prone on the lower wing, but in the 1905 machine he was given direct control of the vertical rudder at the rear of the craft by means of a hand lever.

Parking brakes usually are of the mechanical type, applying force only to the rear brake shoes by means of a flexible cable connected to a hand lever or pedal.

The monkey initiated each trial by depressing a hand lever and maintained its depression while anticipating the onset of a visual stimulus.

It's actually a disc brake for a motorcycle, with hand levers for applying the pads to the disc.

A spokeswoman for China's manned space program said that hand levers were used to control the capsule as it positioned to dock with the orbiting module.

The FPC, he said, was a "vital step, giving us policy levers to take away the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand, levers simply not available – in this country or elsewhere in the developed world – before the crisis hit".

Tyson's best close range set up was that right handed lever punch.

Only one lever was used in this study; this was the left-hand lever for half the rats and the right-hand lever for the other half.