yaw
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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
"The investigation found that, in the prevailing circumstances, the loss of yaw control was irrecoverable," it said in its final report on the crash.
From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2023
Jackson is particularly proud of the clavicle, which can move forward and back as well as pitch, roll, and yaw.
From The Verge • May 4, 2022
The ORR report said the cracks found in the Hitachi Class 800 and 385 series trains' lifting plate were the result of stress corrosion, and yaw dumper cracks were a result of fatigue.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2021
His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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