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Old 04-04-2005 | 06:15 AM
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Default RE: What part turns a plane

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The wing turns the aircraft. The ailerons, elevator, rudder control the bank, yaw, rate of turn, etc., but the turning forces are exerted on the wing in the form of the vector sum of horizontal forces on the banked wing.

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