Transom hung rudders or far aft mounted fin rudders generate greater moment and faster turning than more forward mounted keel hung rudders.

* Transom ( nautical ), one of the beams running athwart the ship's hull at the fashion timbers or the surface that forms the flat back panel of a stern of a vessel

Transom spacing is determined by the thickness of the boards supported, 38 mm boards require a transom spacing of no more than 1. 2 m while a 50 mm board can stand a transom spacing of 2. 6 m and 63 mm boards can have a maximum span of 3. 25 m. The minimum overhang for all boards is 50 mm and the maximum overhang is no more than 4x the thickness of the board.

Transom windows may be fixed or operable.

Following their retreat to the western side of the Indian Ocean in 1942, British naval forces did not return to the South West Pacific theatre until 17 May 1944, when an Anglo-American carrier task force implemented Operation Transom, a joint raid on Surabaya, Java.

* Transom. org

When production of the radio program moved to St. Paul, Tom Keith continued to play Jim Ed who lived in the Hotel Transom with his pet chicken, Curtis.

The film stars Michael Crawford as bungling British Army Officer Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody, with John Lennon ( in his only non-musical role, as Musketeer Gripweed ), Jack MacGowran ( Musketeer Juniper ), Roy Kinnear ( Musketeer Clapper ) and Lee Montague ( Sergeant Transom ) as soldiers under his command.

* Transom. org bio page, including links to This American Life stories he has produced

* Transom. org Bio

* Transom. org blog post from Deep Wireless Festival – 29 May 2010

* Video interview with Scott Carrier on Transom. org – 29 May 2010

When the center of pressure moves aft, its movement rearwards compared to the unmoving center of mass of the aircraft will generate a force which will act to depress the nose of the aircraft ; this nose down pitching moment is “ Mach tuck.

The rear ( or aft end ) of the boat is called the stern.

This layout allows for better weight distribution ( with the engine farther aft ), and places the prop farther forward, which reduces the danger of the spinning prop near the stern of the vessel, where riders enter and exit the water.

They were also adapted to the increasing maritime trade: from 200 tons capacity in the 15th century to 500, they become impressive in the 16th century, having usually two decks, stern castles fore and aft, two to four masts with overlapping sails.

* Yawl: like a sloop or catboat with a mizzen mast located aft ( closer to the stern of the vessel ) of the rudder post.

The semi-dory is basically a Swampscott dory with the stern widened and the rocker straightened aft to support the thrust of the outboard motor.

Secondly, the Tillman designs all included five casemate guns mounted aft, two on each side and one at the tip of the stern.

The stern is the rear or aft part of a ship or boat.

In the 16th century they usually had two decks, stern castles fore and aft, two to four masts with overlapping sails.

to aft side of stern post, counter or transom ".

In both of these cases the mainsail extends aft of a line from masthead to stern, and so a permanent backstay would interfere with the operation of the sail.

A similar but usually much larger structure, called the aftcastle, was at the aft end of the ship, often stretching all the way from the main mast to the stern.

: " Sternlight " means a white light placed as nearly as practicable at the stern showing 67. 5 degrees from right aft on each side of the vessel.

In general sailing vessels are required to carry a green light that shines from dead ahead to 2 points ( 22½ °) abaft the beam < sup >( abaft: to the rear / closer to stern /' aft ')</ sup > on the starboard side ( the right side from the perspective of someone on board facing forward ), a red light from dead ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side ( left side ) and a white light that shines from astern to two points abaft the beam on both sides.

* Tally: The operation of hauling aft the sheets, or drawing them in the direction of the ship's stern.

Firing all her torpedoes, the crew escaped before the fire reached the aft magazine, causing an explosion which blew off most of the stern.

Characteristically these boats had bluff bows, crew's quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single mast with derrick in front of the large hold, aft of which the funnel and ship's wheel stood above the engine room while the captain had a small cabin in the stern.

Those led aft towards the vessel's stern are back-stays while those that lead forward towards the bow are fore-stays.

The difference of aft and stern is that aft is the inside ( onboard ) rearmost part of the vessel, while stern refers to the outside ( offboard ) rearmost part of the vessel.

Squaring off the bow and stern give the longest useful waterline and the masts are usually as far forward and aft as possible.

Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.

Sails set in other positions, or only in special circumstances, have a variety of other names, for instance: a triangular sail set on a stay might be called a staysail, or jib if the stay in question runs to the prow or bowsprit ; sails set either side of square sails to increase sail area in light winds are called studding-sails, qualified by the side and the plain sail name ( such as " port topgallant studding-sail ", but more likely to be pronounced " port t ' ga ' ant stun ' sl "); a gaff sail set aft of the mizzen mast may be called a Spanker or Driver.

Pitch control of the autogyro is by tilting the rotor fore and aft ; roll control is by tilting the rotor laterally ( side to side ).

Both the ketch and the yawl have two masts, with the main mast foremost ; the distinction being that a ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post, whereas on a yawl, it is aft of the rudder post.

* Matilda ( also Mahalta, Maud, or Maude ; 1059 – aft.

Both the yawl and the ketch have two masts, with the main mast foremost ; the distinction being that a ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post, whereas on a yawl, it is aft of the rudder post.

While brigs could not sail into the wind as easily as fore and aft rigged vessels such as schooners, a trait that is common to all square-rigged ships, a skilled brig captain could " manoeuvre it with ease and elegance ; a brig could for instance turn around almost on the spot ".

In the age of sailing ships, the flagship was typically a first-rate ; the aft of one of the three decks would become the admiral's quarters and staff offices.

Yawls are defined as having the mizzen mast abaft ( i. e. " aft of ") the rudder post ; ketches are defined as having the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post.

The " reach and catch " begins the cycle and is preceded by a set-up torso rotation ; the blade angle of attack ( angle of entry relative to the water plane ) appears from the side to be raked aft, however this is an optical illusion since the boat is advancing.

In the 1960s, when jet airliners were powered by slim, low-bypass engines, many aircraft used the rear-engined, T-tail configuration, such as the BAC One-Eleven, Douglas DC-9 twinjets ; Boeing 727, Hawker Siddeley Trident, Tupolev Tu-154 trijets ; and the paired multi-engined Ilyushin Il-62, and Vickers VC10 whose engines were mounted upon the aft fuselage.

On the 737-400 this division of air is blurred ; the left pack feeds the flight deck but also feeds the aft cabin zone, while the right feeds the forward cabin.

On civilian airplanes the FE is positioned so that he can monitor the forward instruments, pilot selections and adjust the thrust levers located on the centre pedestal ; the FE's chair can travel forward and aft and it can swivel laterally 90 degrees, which enables him to face forward and set the engine power, then move aft and rotate sideways to monitor and set the systems panel.

The conversion was done in New York by the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies ( AGWI ) SS Company, and included additional lifeboats and liferafts ; guns ( a 3 inch 50 caliber gun forward, and a 4 inch 50 caliber gun aft, in addition to four 20mm guns ); and changes to the large windows in the pilot house so that they would be reduced to slits to afford more protection.

( snt = BBC Saturday Night Theatre ; aft

The sheets are passed to either side of the forestay, attached to the clew ; they may be passed forward of the luff of the asymmetric, or aft of the luff of the asymmetric, between the tack line and the forestay.

Control of the attitude of the kite's wing is achieved frequently by the pilot's grabbing the kite's stiffened airframe part called the control frame and pushing or pulling the kite's airframe left or right or forward and aft in various combinations ; this control system is most commonly called " weight-shifting " although mechanically the situation is altering positions of mass to alter the center of gravity of the entire system relative to the aerodynamic center of pressure in order to effect leveraging moments to control the flight.

Fifteen separate biomedical and scientific investigations were conducted, using the Spacelab module installed in the aft portion of Atlantiss payload bay, and covering seven different disciplines: cardiovascular and pulmonary functions ; human metabolism ; neuroscience ; hygiene, sanitation and radiation ; behavioral performance and biology ; fundamental biology ; and microgravity research.