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Old 4th Apr 2016, 09:55
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Originally Posted by sapperkenno
...and I was so close to using parentheses for the pedants. "Dutch rolls" is ALSO (as technically incorrect as it may be) the name given to rolling left and right, keeping the longitudinal axis in-line, as a handling maneouver by many instructors, especially in the US. Shame it has the same name as an aerodynamic phenomenon, but that's life. Think of a better term if you can?
The Wikipedia article has several names but why not just "co-ordinated rolling reversals ", which seems to be what you are describing.

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