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Old 3rd February 2003 | 12:30
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My initial thought is that thrust would be used, but in thinking about it, control surfaces may be used at those heights because of the speed and some atmosphere. Certainly, the roll-trim was being added by the on-board computer to react to the drag of the left wing, so one would assume control surfaces were sufficient to attain and execute the roll routines to lose speed (which occur at 56 degrees nose up.

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