Word: joystick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick...
...meeting, which was an end-of-the-year party, included a number of shooting games handily won by Captain Penrod. To lend aerial atmosphere to one called "Fighting in the Clouds," the shooter was placed on a chair perched atop a table, a "joystick" in one hand, and a pistol in the other, and told to explode some wildly jouncing balloons
...cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught in a wheel of her automobile, Pilot Hawes came...
...passenger in the rear cockpit behind Pilot Orlo S. Hoffer when, at 2,000 ft., the plane began spinning out of control. Corporal Torner was about to jump when he saw that the plane was spinning because Pilot Hoffer had fallen ill, was slumped heavily against the joystick. Rather than leave the pilot to die. Corporal Torner climbed into the forward cockpit, dragged the inert body from the controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with the controls for 15 or 20 min.. made...
...France, best known for his interest in shooting a rocket to the moon, sued Chance Vought Corp. last year on the ground that every plane it had built was an infringement of his patents. His reason: each of the planes was controlled in flight by a single stick ("joystick") operating ailerons and elevator, which he claimed to have invented. A victory in the Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault-Pelterie suit Opinion: "There certainly...