I was out blowing the cobwebs away this evening in my Goldwing, which is a strange but enjoyable aeroplane I keep myself amused with on a summers evening.
I briefed myself for a couple of stalls, which I hadn't done in the type for a while. The stall is conventionally control limited (full back stick, slight pitch nod, smidgeon of right wing drop) as usual. Recovering with a conventional full power, central stick recovery was conventional (about 50ft delta-H), but then for some reason I decided to fly one with a stick only recovery - basically recovering to the glide.
I found myself with the stick on the front stop, the ASI pegged about Vs+10, a flat attitude, and no control over the aeroplane to speak off. Some mild yawing oscillations too, which is disconcerting at low speed. I recovered with full power, which bunted it somewhat and I just kept within Vne, losing a total of about 700ft.
My conclusion is that the aircraft (which has a very high thrustline, and thus a pretty large pitch-down with power selection) simply lacked the elevator power to recover without my using the power to pitch down. But, I can't honestly say I've ever met the characteristics before - in a modern non-homebuilt type no-doubt this would be unacceptable anyway, and possibly even then.
Any thoughts anybody. I'd particularly be interested if anybody has experience of canard spinning - could those yawing oscillations get me into a spin? How does an aircraft like this spin (and how would you recover it), I honestly have no idea?
G
[ 16 July 2001: Message edited by: Genghis the Engineer ]