On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:25:28 +1000, "DarkD"
wrote:

They don't bank just one way but both ways several times on all landings.
Each time almost the exact same force is applied. The banks get bigger as
the speed gets lower. So no.

The energy management maneuver is an S turn, so the Orbiter first
rolls one direction then back through wings-level to the same angle in
the other direction and then back to wings-level in each maneuver.

I think they alternate the direction of the starting rolls, but that's
just a vaguely remembered bit of trivia and could well be entirely
wrong.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or