Aeronautics in Theory and Experiment

ISBN: 9781330328484 出版年：2016 页码：362 William Lewis Cowley Forgotten Books

The rudder, R, a vertical component of the tail system, and controlled from the pilot's seat, is used in a similar way to the corresponding part of a boat, to alter the direction of the axis of the machine by the pressure of the wind upon it when turned from its normal axial position.