Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Because that ' s exactly the way things arE' all set
up in the math flow.
You' 11 get that anc. then very
shortly thereafter if you hold the nomim.l bank
angle it will take a little bit of time End it will
start easing on up.
And you ' ll get an idea by the rate of ea~ing up.
If you roll to the 90, of course, in thai position
you ' ll get to it in a big rush, but you \\-ant to be
careful not to overshoot.
You'll never get back.
But, then when I held the nominal bank angl e and
it didn ' t come up and didn't come up, then I rolled
to the 90 to see if I was going to be able to bring
it up. Of course, by this time I realized that
when I didn't see it come up something wa.s really
wrong.
I then went back to the nominal.
Fortunately,
that period that we held at the nominal is what
carried us down as near as it did.
The short period
that we were at 90, of course , is where ~e were
really digging in-­
It cost us 83 miles, probably, because I think if
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we had flown the nominal bank angle all the way that
we'd have really wound up real close to the darn
carrier.