Re: roll and yaw

[Robert S Whitlock <roberts.j.whitlock@juno.com>]

Yes! I get to explain airplane stuff! (my other hobby)
A roll is when the airplane dips and rises its wings, along the axis of
the fuselage (the body).
Pitch is when the airplane dips and rises its nose and tail, along the
axis of the wings.
Yaw is the movement around the last axis, the axis which goes up and
down.

For pitch, roll, and yaw, it doesn't matter which direction it is moving,
it is still a pitch, roll, or yaw.

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:44:49 -0600 "Akbar" <syedali011@earthlink.net>
writes:
> hello,
> well recently i just took over someone's codebase and he uses a lot 
> of rolls
> and yaws.
> my question is what do these mean. I looked them up in the 
> dictionary but
> they did not expelling much.
> roll->to move forward on a surface by revolving on a axis or by 
> repeatedly
> turning over.
> (does this mean he is going forward across the plane? what would he 
> doing if
> he was revolving?)
> yaw->to turn about the vertical axis.
> (which way?)
> thanks
> akbar A.
> 
> 
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