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2. Steering wheel - Wikipedia

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   Steering wheel in a tank. Steering wheel in a VDL Bova bus. A steering wheel (also called a driving wheel, a hand wheel, or simply wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles. Steering wheels are used in most modern land vehicles, including all mass-production automobiles, buses, light and heavy trucks, as well as tractors and tanks.

3. Ship's wheel - Wikipedia

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   Iconic image of a helmsman at a ship's wheel: the Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial. A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a water vessel or airship, in which a helmsman steers the vessel and control its course. Together with the rest of the steering mechanism, it forms part of the helm (the term helm can mean the wheel alone, or ...

4. Whipstaff - Wikipedia

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   Shown are the whipstaff, the rowle, the tiller, the rudderstock, and the helmsman. A whipstaff is a steering device that was used on European sailing ships from the 14th to the 18th century. Its development preceded the invention of the more complex ship's wheel and followed the simple use of a tiller to control the steering of a ship underway.

5. Steering - Wikipedia

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   A cyclist steering a bicycle by turning the handlebar and leaning. Steering is the control of the direction of motion [1] or the components that enable its control. [2] Steering is achieved through various arrangements, among them ailerons for airplanes, rudders for boats, cylic tilting of rotors for helicopters, [3] and many more.

6. Self-steering gear - Wikipedia

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   Even in sailboats running under engine, the self steering gear can be used to keep the boat heading into the wind to easily set or change sails (exception: sheet-to-tiller principle). As wind direction sensors are used. a) a wind vane mounted on an axis being tilted more or less towards the horizon (wind vane self-steering) b) the pressure of ...

7. Marlow-Hunter 47 - Wikipedia

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   The boat has a draft of 7.00 ft (2.13 m) with the deep fin keel and 5.50 ft (1.68 m) with the shoal draft wing keel. The steering wheel is hydraulically-canting and can be pivoted though 90° as desired by the helmsman. This provides the advantages of a dual-wheel configuration, but occupies less cockpit space.