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Перевод: weathercock

[существительное]
флюгер ; непостоянный человек; ненадежный человек

Тезаурус:

1. She wished frantically to go faster, and the broomstick sped away; but as it spurted past, the weathercock made a savage peck at it, and Carol, glancing round, saw that it had snatched a bunch of twigs out with its beak.
2. The weathercock, caught by the breeze, swung sharply round and let out a loud, cross "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" right in Carol's ear.
3. In windy weather there will be a definite tendency for the fuselage to weathercock round into wind unless the tail-wheel or skid is chocked.
4. Later, when the wind has picked up, the gliders weathercock round and can be free to tip over so that the into-wind wing is upwards.
5. All through the long, twisting lanes the route was marked by twigs - twigs from the witch's broom - which led to Threlkeld and only ceased when they came to the church with a steeple crowned by a gilded weathercock.
6. It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock.
7. If the main wheel is further forward, the glider will have a stronger tendency to weathercock than in the air, and the rudder will be even less effective at preventing this.
8. The first is that the wind tends to lift the upwind wing-tip and the second is that the glider tends to weathercock into the wind.
9. The bunch pulled out by the weathercock had left the rest of the twigs loose in their binding.
10. There was a river running through it, and a church with a weathercock on its steeple, and a cobbled square with a tall old house at its corner - and suddenly Carol recognised the place.
11. Thus with the aileron and rudder held in a central position, a glider will always weathercock into line with the relative airflow, just as the wind vane on a church steeple will always swing into the wind.
12. In flight, the directional or weathercock stability is maintained by the fin and rudder, which provide extra side area behind the c.g.
13. However, when towing in a cross wind, the glider will tend to weathercock into wind, and the person on the upwind wing will have difficulty in pushing forward enough to prevent this happening.