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Old July 20th 07, 11:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default A story from a Grunt Aviatior in Iraq

Tina wrote:
Now this is not a very ladylike posting, but this story is something
the readers of this newsgroup will enjoy.

left bank turning the aircraft ninety degrees offset from runway
heading. As soon as we roll out of the turn, I reverse turn to the right a full
two hundred seventy degrees in order to roll out aligned with the runway.
Some aeronautical genius coined this maneuver the "Ninety/Two-Seventy."

I drew this maneuver out on paper and by the gods it lloks like he'd be
flying away from the rwy.

Or did my brain come loose again?

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