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  • n  an unexpected slide
  • n  a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air

  • As a parked Chinook from Singapore fires up its engines, two Australian army Hueys swoop in a few feet off the ground and sideslip into their designated parking slots.
  • Arrived over Littorio Airport the plane went into a sideslip, unaccountably crashed.
  • It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than .

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