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Here's simple way to conceive it. An airplane turns by tilting the lift force from straight up to angled off to one side, and to do this, it has to bank. Imagine the SpaceX rocket hovering. If i …

What you're talking about is called "knife edge" flight, where all of the lift is coming from the sideways fuselage, making it a lifting body aircraft with big fins (the wings) sticking up and down th …

Airplanes with spoilers-only for roll control suffer can suffer from "bad" proverse yaw in that sense, because the drag of the down-wing spoiler, with nothing sticking up on the opposite wing to offset … The sizing of the fin itself is a balancing act over the need for strong into-turn yaw, and for roll stability due to dihedral effect. …

To the extent that the airplane has a roll/yaw couple (roll caused by yaw) you will have opposite aileron to keep the plane from banking into the skid; more wasted energy serving no purpose. … With airliners, turning by skidding is out of the question because with swept wings you get a powerful roll rate as soon as you yaw a couple degrees and you will quickly run out of opposite aileron trying …

I think the biggest factor is that under intense stress where the "mental tunnel vision" effect starts to take hold (I've had that experience in the simulator) you revert more and more to your most ba …

Inducing roll using rudder alone is something you do when you are right on the edge of a stall because a downgoing aileron can potentially induce a stall when right on the edge. … If you needed all the roll power you can possibly get, you would apply full aileron and full rudder to use the resulting skidding to increase the roll rate. …

use extremely steep bank angles for the turns to base and final, mostly to maximize my visibility to gliders in the circuit at or near my level, by presenting the wings in planform to them, and I'll roll …

This animation shows it better than most. The swash plate changes the plane of the rotor disc to change the plane of the lift vector. It's the same thing as an airplane turning by banking. When an …

The wings are straight and there is sufficient dihedral effect from the T wing placement to serve the roll stability needs of the aircraft's mission. …

What will happen is the airplane will yaw into the dead engine, with a certain amount of roll into the dead engine, depending on how strong the dihedral effect, the roll-yaw couple, is. … A swept wing airplane will want to roll upside down and it will take lots of aileron just to keep it right side up. …