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Old 6th November 2005 | 10:37
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JW411
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banana head:

I thank you for your explanation. Perhaps you missed the inverted commas around "kick-off drift"? It is, as you say, a combination of the two.

What I was trying to impart is that you simply cannot touch down in a 747 with 10° of wing down like you can happily do in a DC-10 which is a truly wing-down technique aeroplane.

You cannot scrape a pod in a DC-10 - you get the wingtip first!
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