Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

A trim green and silver-painted craft only 22-1/2 feet long, the Waco was entered to compete in the `` On-to-Spokane '' Air Derby of 1927.

Selkirk judged correctly that his craft, the Cinque Ports, was unseaworthy, and was given the choice of being left ashore on his own.

The craft from Somalia was reported to hold rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles, and to have been adrift for several days.

Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly reported a " gimbal lock " warning light, indicating the craft was not reporting an attitude.

Just under five hours later, on the CSM's 65th orbit around the Moon, its Service Propulsion System main engine was reignited to propel the craft on a trajectory that would return it to Earth.

The deck was made with a sturdy chamber, the sides of the craft were nearly vertical and the bottom was rounded.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.

At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to Basel by apprentices of Johann Gutenberg.

The use of visible and expressive brushwork by all the artists was considered an insult to the craft of traditional artists, who often spent weeks on their work.

Roberts was prominent in the period following the death of John Thomas and helped craft the structures of the Christadelphian body.

In Greek legend, for instance, it was Poseidon ( god of the sea ) who raised the storms which blew Odysseus ' craft off course on his return journey, and Japanese tradition holds that a god-sent wind saved them from Mongol invasion.

The wreckage of Campbell's craft was recovered by the Bluebird Project between October 2000 when the first sections were raised and June 2001 when Campbell's body was recovered.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

Vincent Canby of the New York Times was similarly unimpressed :" Though special-effects experts in Japan and around the world have vastly improved their craft in the last 30 years, you wouldn't know it from this film.

The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a guild.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, as well as an author and an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist.

Most of this work was in small craft propelled by both sail and oar ; maneuvering larger sail-powered vessels in uncharted waters was generally impractical and dangerous.

Thus, after one of its gyroscopes failed, NASA decided that a controlled crash was preferable to letting the craft come down on its own at random.

Experiments with gliders provided the groundwork for heavier-than-air craft, and by the early 20th century advances in engine technology and aerodynamics made controlled, powered flight possible for the first time.

In January 1959, the NRDC formed a subsidiary called Hovercraft Development Ltd. Cockerell was the Technical Director and the company controlled the patents which it used to license several private sector firms to manufacture craft under the registered trademark of Hovercraft.

On the other hand, the Theban kings, physically isolated from Memphis, had no access to these Memphite artworks and thus, were able to craft new artistic styles that reflected the creativity of the artists who were no longer controlled by the state.

As the making and quality of bread had been controlled to this point, so were the skills of biscuit-making through the craft guilds.

This 1 / 2-mile flight was the first " controlled powered flight " ( also the first flight of a " heavier than air craft ") in Canada and the British Empire.

In a basic sense, ablative material is designed to slowly burn away in a controlled manner, so that heat can be carried away from the spacecraft by the gases generated by the ablative process ; while the remaining solid material insulates the craft from superheated gases.

* Darwin 4078: The player controlled a fighter craft that could mutate or evolve into a variety of different shapes and creature-like craft.

The craft does not fly freely ; it is controlled by handlers with poles standing around it on the ground.

The Unit is controlled remotely from a control craft that resembles a very large jet fighter with VSTOL capabilities.

There are also many other aircraft controlled by the computer, ranging from the flyable ones ( except the Fokker ), to larger corporate jets, passenger jets, military transports, and ( off-duty ) fighter craft.

AI controlled craft also make use of the system.

A radio-controlled ( model ) aircraft ( often called RC aircraft or RC plane ) is controlled remotely by a hand-held transmitter and a receiver within the craft.

The MasterLink satellite is primarily controlled by an eponymous artificial intelligence, but as an experimental system, it is supplemented by a Soviet cosmonaut named " Karkov "-who coincidentally murdered Rogers ' parents years before while they were flying in a commercial jet the Soviet Union declared a spy craft.

All Australian and American logistical units were placed under COSC, which also controlled a fleet of small craft and luggers.

Each side is represented by a craft called a " rotofoil ", which can be controlled by either a human player or a computer-controlled " droid " with ten levels of difficulty.

Most of the craft detailed are from the 1980s or earlier, but the navy acquired new boats from Spain and France in the 1990s.

Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.

Apart from contributions to the 1923 Haus am Horn, student architectural work amounted to un-built projects, interior finishes, and craft work like cabinets, chairs and pottery.

The scholarly study of these manuscripts from the point of view of the bookbinding craft is called codicology ; the study of ancient documents in general is called paleography.

** The rotor drive train in helicopters uses a freewheeling clutch to disengage the rotors from the engine in the event of engine failure, allowing the craft to safely descend by autorotation.

Lis Paludan theorizes that crochet evolved from traditional practices in Arabia, South America, or China, but there is no decisive evidence of the craft being performed before its popularity in Europe during the 19th century.

King over King's refusal to provide additional landing craft from the Pacific.

The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth ( such as the International Space Station ), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration ( commonly known as moonwalks ) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.

tourism, construction, fish processing, craft items from shell, wood, and pearls

*" On Food Writing " Advice about the craft of food writing from Michael Rhulman.

Today City and Guilds is an examining and accreditation body for vocational, managerial and engineering qualifications from entry level craft and trade skills up to post doctoral achievement.

No. " or " ID ;" some ships and craft changed from an SP to an ID number or vice-versa during their careers, without their unique numbers themselves changing, and some ships and craft assigned numbers in anticipation of naval service never were acquired by the Navy.

It was intended to take off from a runway, mounted on the back of a large rocket-boosted trolley that would help get the craft up to " working speed ".

The engine was intended to switch from jet propulsion to pure rocket propulsion at 26 – 32 km high, by which time the craft would be travelling at Mach 5 to 7.

Aerobraking converts the spacecraft's kinetic energy into heat, so it requires a heatshield to prevent the craft from burning up.

The word " kayak " means " man's boat " or " hunter's boat ", and native kayaks were a personal craft, each built by the man who used it — with assistance from his wife, who sewed the skins — and closely fitting his size for maximum maneuverability.

Medieval guilds existed to protect and enhance their members ' livelihoods through controlling the instructional capital of artisanship and the progression of members from apprentice to craftsman, journeyman, and eventually to master and grandmaster of their craft.

A trade union might include workers from only one trade or craft, or might combine several or all the workers in one company or industry.