joy-stick

Labeled "one of the most overlooked achievements of the last 100 years," CNET provides a soup-to-nuts breakdown of the joy-stick and its origin.

Archive 2005-06-01 Peter Zura 2005

Eyes dancing with joy-stick mania, Sanders departed.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

Eyes dancing with joy-stick mania, Sanders departed.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

Eyes dancing with joy-stick mania, Sanders departed.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

A pull-back on the joy-stick lifts the flaps, raises the nose of the machine, and causes it to gain height.

Opportunities in Aviation Gordon Lamont

Push the joy-stick forward, the elevators are turned down, and the machine goes into a dive for the ground.

Opportunities in Aviation Gordon Lamont

Having satisfied yourself that all these things are as they should be in the best of all possible aeroplanes, that the joy-stick works as smoothly as a beer-pull, and that the under-carriage has the necessary wheels, axles and other things that under-carriages are licensed to carry, little remains but to pay for the machine and make a nosedive for home.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 Various

Then, after driving the Aeroplane up to and under the lee of the hedge, he stops the engine, and quickly lashing the joy-stick fast in order to prevent the wind from blowing the controlling surfaces about and possibly damaging them, he hurriedly alights.

The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

Aeroplane is on the ground the control lever or "joy-stick" is lashed fast to prevent the wind from blowing the controlling surfaces about and possibly damaging them.

The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

Having had some eight years 'experience in designing, building, and flying aeroplanes, I have hopes that the practical knowledge I have gained may offset the disadvantage of a hand more used to managing the "joy-stick" than the dreadful haltings, the many side-slips, the irregular speed, and, in short, the altogether disconcerting ways of a pen.

The Aeroplane Speaks 1919