"Morgans" wrote in message ...
built, that can do steep banking, rolls, loops, and other exciting maneuvers
that will make riding a motorcycle feel tame.

By the way, I also got confirmation on what I'd for long suspected to
be unnecessary - the warning to switch off mobile phones on the
aircraft. I asked how phones, which use a completely different set of
frequencies to operate in, could interfere with air traffic
communication. And the pilots did admit that it was just something
that international regulations required and that there isn't much to
evidence interference, unless satellite phones are used.

And it was only when I went looking for a gage with a ball and saw
none that I learnt (from the captain) that, "Every turn on an aircraft
is a coordinated turn". Wonder why John Denker has written a piece on
coordinated turns at all...

Ramapriya