Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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which gave me one little old tweak of suspicion
there that something was wrong right there on the
roll bug.
At that point then, I rolled 90 to see
if I could get on that too, the down range needle.
The cross range needle moved in some from the right.
It had been out . . . not completely full scale, but
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quite a ways out. It moved in slightly but not
much.
Down range needle, let's see, I don't believe
it ever moved up · from there on and then at that
point when I saw that the 90 wasn' t going to hold it
in there, I said I was going back to the nominal
bank angle. I went back t o the 53 but then put in
60. . . . 67 degrees bank right, to see if I can get the
roll bug to change . It didn ' t change at that time
so cross range was still indicating that I should
be banked left so I went back to my bank left to
see if I can kill off the cross range.
I knew at
that point that something was really seriously
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0llgand I was just trying to hold it as nominal
as possible.
I shoul d have probably at that time
since I was already passed the time of reverse bank
angle, I probably shoul d have gone ahead and hel d
that, but that was a mistake, I probably should have
gone ahead and held that 67 degrees bank right, and
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