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Old 09-08-2010 | 07:29 PM
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Default RE: Downwind Turns!!

The reason the plane will balloon or drop the nose is one of two reasons

1: ballon or drop the nose due to too little or too much elevator given for the bank angle

2: nose suddenly drops due to exceeding the critical AOA in high banked turns even at high speed and throttle settings.

Your explanation sounds like what happens with a hovercraft or airboat. Short of a 3D aircraft in the most extreme manuevers planes can't turn like that.