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Hot and Hi
Crab, could you kindly rephrase that sentence?
I don’t know the word “spank” and its meaning. I am not sure if here it is a verb (“to spank”) or a noun…
Sorry Hot and Hi - the tail hits the ground because of the large nose-up attitude and the fuselage then pitches forward - the natural reaction to this from the pilot is to pull back on the cyclic further.
When the rear of the skids hit the ground, the tail starts to come up and meets the rotor disc coming back - the result is the sort of picture in the above post.
To spank in is to crash - very colloquial use of the word spank, not sure of it's origins but was widely used in the military when I was serving.