Sentence examples for rudder to from inspiring English sources

More experienced bodysurfers also use their trail arm as a rudder to steer across the wave.

On the street she was another dog, with little regard for Perkus except as the rudder to her sails, their affair suspended until they returned indoors.

But the board stressed today that it had not ruled out structural defect, or perhaps mechanical failure that could have caused the rudder to move.

One industry expert said it "puts a high degree of emphasis on the use of the rudder to control extreme bank attitudes".

Evidence recovered from the plane's data recorder indicates that the pilots were using the rudder to try and stabilize the plane.

To prevent such a stall, American, more than other airlines, teaches its pilots to use the rudder to skid the airplane to one side.

Jhonathan's goal is to drop down and into a valley, below the treeline, and fly at 127mph – terminal velocity – while using his feet as rudders to steer.

Many early aviation pioneers employed horizontal and vertical rudders to keep their experimental aircraft from veering right or left or unintentionally diving or rising.

Whalers have said activists have tried to blind them by projecting laser beams onto their ships and have thrown ropes and hooks at their vessels' propellers and rudders to disable them.

New research suggests that the giant birds use their wings as "air rudders" to rapidly change directions while running and to stop quickly.

Redesigning airliners' rudders to double as a brake could make them less noisy as they come in to land, an Airbus patent suggests.