"Astern" is a word used to describe something that is situated or moving towards the rear or back of a ship or aircraft.
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Murdoch reacted instinctively and ordered the helmsman to put the wheel over hard - a-starboard, while ordering the engine room to stop all engines and then go
full astern.
SEBRING, Fla. (March 16, 2018)-- Corvette Racing will go for its fourth consecutive class victory in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday with its two Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs line
astern for the start of Saturday's second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Flowing from the seamless sweep of a lower bonnet line and steeply raked windscreen, the new, stepped roof profile further reduces drag, whilst the rear spoiler is now fully integrated within the rear roofline, connecting seamlessly with the rear pillar to minimise turbulence in air flowing
astern from the vehicle.
This process of surrender - this movement full
speed astern - is what Christians call repentance
As the boat moves closer, the rearguard of eiders, snowy - white and black drakes and drab, brown hens patters clumsily across the surface, their wings, set
well astern on their bodies, revving up until finally they get up above the waves.
If a person folds one of the seats — say, in the middle row on the passenger side — it will recognize if the front passenger seat is too
far astern to allow for fully flat folding.
The compartment in the console
astern of the shifter is, by contrast, so deep that items stored there would easily be buried.
Behind them are large ventilated, grooved discs (380 mm up front, 330
mm astern).
Safely aboard again, Chee ordered the
boat astern and gaffed the marlin.
In an attempt to gaff the fish before it sounded, Chee shouted for Mate Herman Kunewa to put the
Malia astern quick.
The men of the racing ketch «Celebes» considered the yawl «Escapade,»
trailing astern, a cursed nuisance — until fire swept up from below deck in the San Diego - Acapulco race
Tyres are 265/30 R20 up front and a beefier 285/30
R20 astern.
Braking is by 380 mm ventilated discs up front and 365 mm ventilated
discs astern.
This one also features a set of Dione alloy wheels (20in up front and
21in astern) in matt silver, while Miura badging marks the Homage Aventadors out from their regular counterparts.
The large second - row head restraints also compromise the
view astern, and our test cars» camera - based rearview mirrors garnered mixed impressions.
Twenty - inch Carrera S wheels are standard on the GTS, with a staggered tyre set - up putting 235 - section rubber up front and
265s astern.
Things were more conventional underneath, and much like later Golfs in fact: MacPherson strut front suspension, and
multi-link astern, with anti-roll bars at both ends.
A rear cross-traffic alert system scans the
area astern when the driver is backing up, and automatically applies the brakes if it detects an oncoming vehicle.
The styling and packaging weren't to my personal liking, although the view from
dead astern is certainly business - like — especially with zero overhang, wide track, wide wheels and the twin exhausts poking out from the middle of the rear apron.
Approaching the Queen Mary 2 from
astern as she lay in her berth at Southampton, on the south coast of England, I was struck by her enormous beam and bulk.
In fact, she was headed, as were all of the
ships astern of her in follow - the - leader fashion, for jagged rock pinnacles and reefs off Point Arguello.
Both boats are spacious custom built catamarans, with dry air conditioned interior cabins up front, partially shaded observation deck featuring lounge style seating and a generous dive
deck astern.
So the mammals, now visible at the prow of the ships, being at a loss dived in the deep and not long afterwards they
emerged astern and jetted water over a great expanse of sea.
Magnussen drove the opening hour in the No. 3 Corvette with he and Gavin
line astern for their first stints.
The exhausted Canadians, who claim they only reach peak form in the autumn, were
well astern, in fourth place.
Carbon ceramic brakes are standard (and, like everything on Planet Conti, they're massive - 420 mm up front, 356
mm astern), and they hide behind 21x9.5 in forged alloy wheels wrapped in 275/35 R21 tyres all - round.
Simple concept, complex engineering The concept is both simple and highly complex, with the new machines consisting of five segments hinged together in line
astern, each segment containing a generator.
E-driving silently through the ancient Spanish port city of Valencia; six Porsche 918 Spyders line
astern, six million American dollars worth of hybrid supercar.
Side - on the Panamera is clumsy and again that word, awkward but from front three - quarter the car looks muscular, confident and classy... Same goes for dead - ahead or
astern.