Aviation merit badge (part one)

minor adjustments when needed. However, if you aren't in a very fast military-type craft, you'd probably stall and go plummeting down. Anyway, next one is a level turn. Keep the elevators steady, and gently ease into the turn using only the rudder. Just don't go too fast or you might rip your wings off. For a climbing turn. Slowly ease the elevators up and the rudder in the direction you want to turn very slowly, gently. For a descending turn do the same thing for a climbing turn only backwards, moving the elevators slowly down. For a straight descent get to as high an altitude as you can, just to be safe, and ease your elevators down, but you should level up quickly to avoid a stall. For a landing, ease the elevators down a distance away from the landing strip, and do it slightly more sharply as you're almost over the strip.

All right, I have to get going. We'll continue this at a later time. Until next time, happy trails!

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