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Old 11-23-2010 | 01:58 PM
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Default RE: Downwind turn Myth

 
He will sink. Because in comparison to the water around him he is not moving fast enough to stay on the surface. This same idea can be applied to a plane in the flow of moving air. <span class="info"></span>
He sinks because now he must bank his ski to stay afloat.  The ski loses lift in a bank just as a wing does.  It is after all why we call them planes.