a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
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a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers
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From atop his mammoth crane, Jan de Jong lifts a 25-ton container from a freighter with a fiddle of his joystick, punches a code on a computer screen and delivers the cargo to a railway car 200 yards away.
The astronauts, using a joystick and aided by information from the ground, can then zero in on an object.
The four astronomers aboard Columbia manually operated Astro's pointing system for the third straight day Wednesday, using a joystick and keyboard to steer the three ultraviolet telescopes toward desired stars.
"He tried to pull up on the joystick to elevate the plane to turn parallel to the beach to deal with headwind and then a gust hit the hovering plane," said Glenn Tremml, the former world record holder.
Lightgate Inc. of Emeryville, Calif., recently introduced Felix, a cursor-guiding mechanism about the size of a paperback book that is used like a videogame joystick.
In practice, it's becoming spin controllers' favorite joystick.
And I am also settling slowly into the other game requiring use of a remote-control joystick, Voyeur.
HP said it was selected by TV Answer to manufacture and market a TV control box and a remote controller that resembles a video-game joystick.