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Old 19th Jun 2008, 21:53
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barit1
 
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Speaking of which -

In my college days I got a bit of dual in a WWII PT-22 trainer that had a bit of sweepback in the wing. We did slow flight, stalls, the usual training exercises.

Then my instructor (Prof. Irwin Treager, author of the powerplants text) said "try a stall approach with a little cross-control". I did, approaching power-off stall very carefully, when suddenly we did a snap roll! So fast, we had rolled 360 before I had time to think, let alone recover.

The lesson was obvious; keep up your airspeed in a slip!
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