Today’s lesson: Airplanes do not have steering wheels. Despite what reporters and an editor may say. An airplane has a yoke. (And it’s not a yolk, as that editor tried to “fix.”) A helicopter has a cyclic. (For an admittedly juvenile chuckle, check out the definition of cyclic.) What brought that on? A 78-year-old grandmother [...]
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