Word: overshoot
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...result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...
...advantages were obvious to raiders screened by darkness or thick weather. Flying low toward a target, a bomber has only to land his missile close by, and if it is aimed in the right direction, it cannot overshoot the mark...
When Edmund Gilligan is at his best, as in White Sails Crowding, he is one of few men living who can galvanize the dying art of literate romancing. But in The Gaunt Woman his Hibernian lilt and lustiness often overshoot the mark. Like most Irish storytellers, he must beware of riding with his Erse too high...
...have circulated recently (TIME, Nov. 11), he knew better after what happened in Munich last week. The Royal Air Force made a raid on the city, somehow timed to coincide with Hitler's presence there, and somehow a rack of bombs aimed at the railroad station happened to overshoot its mark. Bombs splattered in Munich's streets. The world-wide broadcast of Hitler's speech was abruptly canceled...
...traveled through its rarefied atmosphere to a height of 24 miles before starting down. The earth's rotation had to be calculated in elevating (for range) and laying (for deflection) Big Bertha, for as the earth turned Paris toward the shells she lofted, it tended to make Bertha overshoot. At best her aim could not be relied on within a target area smaller than two miles long by three-quarters of a mile wide, and even the weather made a big difference. Nowadays, greater accuracy is attained over greater distances by airplanes carrying far greater projectiles and carrying them...