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#126374 03/27/04 09:18 PM
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Is yaw as in the movement within a vortex?


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I always thought it's what a plane did when turning along its axis (the one from nose to tail).


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There's three ways a ship (air or water) can move. If you imagine axes, two horizontal, one running the length of the ship (x), one running across the ship (y) and one vertical, running up and down through the middle (z). Rotation about the x-axis is called roll, rotation about the y-axis is called pitch, z-axis rotation is called yaw. In an airplane roll is when the wings go up and down alternately, pitch is when the nose goes up or down and yaw the nose waggles back and forth relative to the direction of travel.

So, basically what jheem said only more specific and less understandable.


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And then there's a cousin to syphilis, fortunately less
serious. I've never seen a case.
Rare (in the US) diseases caused by organisms related to T. pallidum are bejel, yaws and pinta.

Yaws is a crippling and disfiguring disease affecting some 50 million people in the world © WHO



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OK, lemme get this *straight:

Nod my head up and down to indicate 'yes' = pitch
Shake my head back and forth to mean 'no' = yaw
Crack my neck like a chiropractor would = roll


#126379 03/27/04 11:09 PM
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*straight

You got it.

On a large Navy ship the roll was felt as an angular thing, the pitch, which was more noticeable far forward or far aft than it was amidships, was felt as a weight change. Yaw was probably noticed only by the helmsman.


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I can remember long ago seeing underpowered light planes
at almost 45degress to line of travel.


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underpowered light planes
at almost 45degress to line of travel.


Does this mean they were *pitching hard for enough lift to stay aloft?


#126382 03/28/04 01:38 AM
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I was correct then, Faldage, because a vortex yawing in a pool would be Musick's head moving in an extended 'Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo'---or like Linda Blair.


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That's pretty funny....I was thinking bejel, yaws and pinta were the names of Colubus' ships, but my dear Sandra said no, it's a law firm.

Ron.


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