Sentences with phrase «like rudders»

Movable vanes at the sail's four corners act like rudders so operators can help it achieve and maintain a gravitationally stable solar orbit.

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

Like the rudder of a ship at sea, there is something that will act as clear guidance for our lives if we choose to set our faces toward it.

Just like James tells us that the tongue is like a rudder that steers the ship, I'm thinking that a purpose statement will steer a blog and even a group of people.

To steer or brake, the craft would simply shift its magnet (and its field) like a rudder.

Basically we'd lay in the water on our side, using one hand to steer the kite and the other like a rudder steering our body, zig - zagging back and forth as we learned better kite control.

The peddle setup is a self - centering axis aimed for use like a rudder control.

And for those of you who were concerned, which statistically speaking is at least some of you, you'll be happy to know that the galleon in The Little Mermaid is mostly on the up - and - up, barring a few details like the rudder and the fork and the mermaid.

Not exact matches

Because I feel like, if we're gonna go back through history, the moral rudder of the American Church has been the black folks.

Hopefully, we can be a little like, as I like to say, a trim tab, which is a tiny rudder on a bigger rudder that helps steer a ship or an airplane.

Instead, plesiosaurs powered ahead with their two front flippers, using the two back ones like a boat's rudder to maneuver and maintain stability, the team

If you comply, you join in the flow, and you can even direct the rudder as to which direction you'd like to go.

And however humbling such figures are, Rudder is keen to stress that sites like OkCupid are «a venue» — they introduce singles, but any credit for the relationship must go to the people themselves.

«You have to show a little bit of what they want and a little bit of what they like and a little bit of what's actually going to work,» explained Rudder, «which is how life works in general.»

But then I'd realize, no... this is like being in a boat without a rudder.

As long as we're restricted in our thinking to what is being done, we're like a boat without a rudder.

Investors without a plan or a goal are like a ship without a rudder who will blindly follow the investment fad of the moment.

These pooches also have pronounced webbed feet, a rudder - like tail and a heavy coat to protect them from the icy cold waters.

All dogs have webbed feet, but Labrador Retrievers have much - pronounced webbed feet to help them paddle in the water while their rudder - like tail helps them maneuver.

The wreck is so big it has a bit of everything: a large stern and rudder standing mightily, sections of wreck where you can safely penetrate, potato cod cleaning station, and in places where the wreck looks more like a reef, stacks of reef fish of every size, shape and colour.

You can use the thumb rudder paddles for rudder control (for flight games) or like gear shifters (for racing games).

Vertical features, like banners or rudders, stand to one side.

That he has a tool like Paterson to play with is a shame but what they are both afraid of is that the order will not be «All Engines Back Full» but «Left Full Rudder, Port Engine Back 2/3, Starboard Engine Ahead 2/3» and hearing the helmsman respond «Aye Aye Sir»

Maybe the real critical things like weight distribution, proportional density, wing shape, response time of flaps and rudder, and engine power output, needed more consideration, modification?

Heavy on the basics of stick and rudder skills, with unscheduled landings on other varied topics like weather and the sheer beauty and joy of flight.

Modelled and reviewed the injection molded parts of RC planes like wing, flaps and rudders using Solidworks.

Your emotions are like an invisible rudder, without assistance they may direct your entire process in unknown directions.