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Old 14th June 2004 | 02:52
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IO540
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paulo

Do you mean dumping height in an emergency, or dumping height to achieve a very steep descent?

In the latter case, I would say that if there is enough height to stall etc safely then one can do a descending orbit. I once came over some 6000ft hills to land an a field at sea level, about 3nm along. I don't know how many orbits I had to do to lose the 5000ft
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