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Old 19th May 2004 | 16:43
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Willit Run
 
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From: In da north country
The problem with pre-spinup is the gyroscopic forces induced on the airframe made them very hard to control in flight, especially on approach. This was tried back in the sixties and was determined to be a good idea, but had some bad results when actually tried. OOPS!
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