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Lake Sawyer Hawks

Perfect spring weather for flying. Bring a friend out to the field!

Marlow Anderson Field • Hobart, WA
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Slip

A maneuver where the airplane's controls are used to make the fuselage fly at an angle to the line of flight. This causes a tremendous increase in drag and allows an airplane without landing flaps to increase its angle of descent without picking up a lot of speed.