control column
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The wreckage of his Hurricane was recovered in 2019 with the control column and the gun-button still set to "fire".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
The wreckage of his Hurricane was recovered in 2019 with the control column and the gun-button frozen in time, still set to "fire".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
Airbus’s appearance in the market with its strange control system, in which each side’s control column operated independently, was widely derided as “crazy.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
In other incidents he cited, two pilots had experienced “stick shakers,” a noisy vibration of the control column that warns pilots the plane is close to a stall.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
“Elmtree, for repair. Faulty tailplane handwheel. It’s flyable, but you have to hold the control column right forward.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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