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Old 12-14-2001 | 04:13 AM
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"does a plane trimed to fly level in gravity accelerate up indefinitly if you remove the gravity?"

greg - interesting question. i'd say no. there is a drag component to every axis of motion. eventually the lift force and drag force would stabilize, just as a bubble released underwater reaches a terminal velocity, or an object falling from the sky.