And this illustrates it very well, courtesy of a little known agency
that seems to know a little bit about aircraft:
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/yaw.html
On 10/16/2016 07:39 AM, John Muccigrosso wrote:
> On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 3:55:13 PM UTC-4, Steve Edmonds wrote:
>
> Very log ago I heard it used.
> From dictionary yaw" (be) definition: to be wide open. ... to open
> wide; "gape"
> Was applied in this meaning to a wide open harbour or river mount.
> Just trying to add text to your point 3.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:58:39 UTC+13, John Muccigrosso wrote:
>
> On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 2:34:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Edmonds
> wrote:
>
> Yaw is the width of the harbour entrance, side to side.
>
> On Monday, 3 October 2016 04:46:57 UTC+13, John Muccigrosso
> wrote:
>
> I always like to remember the original usage for
> airplanes (OK, it was really ships):
>
> 1. Pitch is how far up or down the plane/boat's nose is
> pointed.
> 2. Roll is how much the plane is tilted to the left or
> right (tipping the plane/ship left and right).
> 3. Yaw is the other one. :-)
>
> Pitch and roll have essentially the obvious meaning from
> their usual usage. It's yaw that isn't used outside this
> context.
>
>
> Getting OT here, but I hadn't heard that one before. Citation?
>
>
> Thanks. It's just that I didn't see that meaning in the OED, so I was
> curious.
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