Highly recommended piece by William Langewiesche on the same subject: The Turn At the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure that

Highly recommended piece by William Langewiesche on the same subject: The Turn At the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure that by now seems so routine and familiar that airline passengers appreciate neither its elegance and mystery nor its dangerously delusive character. The author, a pilot, takes us up into the subject. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.htm http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.htm