About eight minutes after that, the shuttle begins to yaw, or turn, in the opposite direction.
I felt my back end start to yaw — rotate clockwise, turning us south.
Heck, the Accord even has Trailer Stability Assist, which spots your attached caravan/boat/fairground ride beginning to yaw and uses a "combination of torque reduction and individual wheel braking to bring the car and trailer back under control".
By locating the heaviest lump as close as possible to the vehicle's centre of gravity, the "radius of gyration"—a measure of its resistance to yaw left or right is reduced to a minimum.
That is because the blades, being behind the pole and at an angle to it, can be given more freedom to yaw about than they would have in an upwind turbine.
Because a bullet coming out of a smooth barrel tends to yaw or swerve, the barrels of guns are rifled -- inscribed with what are known as "lands and grooves" that help stabilize the bullet on its corkscrew-like trajectory out of the barrel.
