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Old 1st Feb 2016, 07:57
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Originally Posted by CONSO

BUT if you turn the same wing inverted or upside down , then the LIFT VECTOR ADDS TO THE GRAVITY VECTOR, and absent some other forces the plane will go down, still in level flight -at least for a while.
That's exactly right, and that is why when doing a quick aileron roll, you find the aircraft accelerating downwards at nearly 20 m/s2 during the inverted phase.....

....oh, wait.
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