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Old 29th Sep 2011, 12:37
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gravity32
 
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Does Stafford's bank angle look like 85 degrees? The plane can't make the turn without it. And it can't make the turn with it either, as it produces a load of 12g.

To get round the curve at Stafford's angle of about 30 degrees would require slowing the plane to about 100 knots. That won't fly either.

If you can't see that Stafford and Prather, with their very clear indication of the plane flying wings level till past the Annex, totally destroys your theory, then there is certainly no hope for this discussion. There are many other witnesses but none thought the bank sufficient to be worthy of particular comment. Perhaps it was only 6 degrees as in the FDR file. Many witnesses mentioned the plane spooling up, full throttle. Perhaps it was really going fast and accelerating as in the FDR file and as shown by radar.

As you are determined to go against so much evidence-based science it is clear that we must agree to disagree, as you said above.
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