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    Balanced rudders are used by both ships and aircraft. Both may indicate a portion of the rudder surface ahead of the hinge, placed to lower the control...
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    Henri Mignet (19 October 1893 – 31 August 1965) was a French radio engineer who became well known as an aircraft designer and builder. His most famous...
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    Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles. Lazarus came to Marseille...
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    damaged rudder. Despite this handicap, Courageux was able to participate in the evacuation and warp out of the harbour with the replacement rudder following...
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    she has handed the rudder of the ship to Louis, the new king of France. The ship represents the state, now in operation as Louis steers the vessel. Each...
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    out a new vertical rudder". The brothers then decided to make the rear rudder movable to solve the problem. They hinged the rudder and connected it to...
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    experimental aircraft designed in 1910 by the successful aviator Louis Paulhan in collaboration with Henri Fabre. The prototype became the second aircraft bought...
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    Editions Larivière. OCLC 440863702. Lacaze, Henri (2016). Les avions Louis Breguet Paris [The Aircraft of Louis Breguet, Paris] (in French). Vol. 2: le règne...
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    only rudder control, but was flown with increasing success during the year by Henri Farman, and on 13 January 1908 he won the 50,000 francs Deutsch de la...
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    first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces...
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    Alberto Santos-Dumont (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    24 March 1900, the millionaire oil magnate Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe sent the President of the Aéro-Club de France, which had been founded two years earlier...
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    rebuilt. In 1934–1936, the study plan for the ground floor was drawn up by Henri van de Velde. The west wing was inhabited by Prince Charles, Count of Flanders...
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  • Alexander Bain (1818–1903)[1][3] Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–1792)[2] Lynne Rudder Baker (1944–2017)[2] Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975)[1][2][3][4] Mikhail Bakunin...
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    a rudder, and a method of propulsion. On 15 July 1784 the brothers flew for 45 minutes from Saint-Cloud to Meudon with M. Collin-Hullin and Louis Philippe...
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    Brevet-gourin, modified by Lieutenant Gouin and Henri Chazal with a parasol wing and split airbrake/rudder. Blériot XIbis In January 1910 the bis introduced...
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    March 1907. and in February 1908 a second example flown by Henri Farman won the Archdeacon-de la Meurthe Grand Prix d'Aviation for the first officially...
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    engineer and manufacturer Gabriel Voisin. It was used by the French aviator Henri Farman to make the first heavier-than-air flight lasting more than a minute...
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    traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles. Provençal tradition names Lazarus...
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    foil spheres connected to support a rider's basket, a tail, and a steering rudder. Critics argued that the thin copper spheres could not sustain ambient air...
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    Dalton. They temporarily shipped into HMS Inconstant after the damaged rudder was repaired in their original ship, the 4,000-tonne corvette Bacchante...
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    with the middle rudder being like those on Chinese vessels (hanging axial rudder) or western axial rudder (pintle and gudgeon rudder). Alternatively,...
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  • have unreliable rudder control since the 1980s, as shown in the United Airlines Flight 585 crash on 3 March 1991, having had two rudder incidents in the...
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    landing gear featured dual-wheel main units. The empennage had twin fins and rudders and a vestigial central fin. The prototype was powered by four 1,580 hp...
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    List of medallists (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1964)[citation needed] Isidore-Lievin De Rudder (1855 – 1943) Louis-Antoine de Smeth (1883 – 1964)[citation needed] Pieter De Soete (1886 – 1948)[citation needed]...
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  • Marinoff Louis-Françisque Lélut Louis Althusser Louis Billot Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Louis Couturat Louis Dupré Louis Eugène Marie Bautain Louis Gabriel...
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  • Machel Montano Billy Ocean Denyse Plummer Sundar Popo Patrice Roberts David Rudder Adesh Samaroo Jit Samaroo Hazel Scott Len "Boogsie" Sharpe Lord Shorty/Ras...
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    Kinzelbach and Potier de la Houssaye, were promoted to Lieutenant de vaisseau. Major Henri Louis Lerch was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for...
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    domesticated animal. According to Louis Foucher, the inscriptions ad leonem and ad aprum evoke summer and winter; Henri Lavagne thinks they represent the...
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    of each one. Initially, the rear fuselage and tailplane (excluding the rudder) were painted a bright yellow, although the markings were later changed...
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    traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles in 40 CE. Provençal tradition names...
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