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Boeing and subcontractor Parker Hannifin, which makes the rudder-control unit, traced the problem to the "servo valve" -- a mechanism that directs the rudder's hydraulic fluid.
Unsolved Mystery 2008
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The rudder's got to get in the water and they have move together with the nationalistic perspective, and that's what he's talking about.
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The ship jerked as the French used the headsails to bring her around, but without the rudder's pressure she stubbornly went back into irons, and the sails again hammered at the masts.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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He could not see the rope, but he knew he had the blade deep in its fibres now, for the blade was being tugged back and forth with the rudder's small movements.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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Nonnus adjusted the angle of the spar, then unshipped the tiller and added the rudder's help to the dugout's slow change of direction.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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I nodded, deep in a conversation with the cockpit crew, who were frantic with worry at the poor handling caused by our rudder's difficulties.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition) 1993
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The thing weighed nearly three tons - if the cracked weld let go completely, it would pull the brace out of the rudder's ceiling and smash through the other supporting structures and the various items of equipment, and go right through the bottom of the rudder.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition) 1993
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And as he ended he hurled another mighty rock, which almost lighted on the rudder's end, yet missed it as if by a hair's breadth.
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And as he ended he hurled another mighty rock, which almost lighted on the rudder's end, yet missed it as if by a hair's breadth.
Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls Logan [Editor] Marshall
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Through the chatter and tread, and the rudder's wash, and the dismal clank
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole
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