An interesting and thought provoking article, Huck. As an aside - and please excuse the thread drift here - many moons back when I was instructing I noticed that in a lot of pilots that I checked out to fly our school aircraft, having come from the US where they had trained rather more cheaply than in the UK, were doing odd things in the stall recovery. Whereas I had it drummed into me and indeed taught it myself that if you got a wing drop you 'prevented further yaw with rudder' - I noticed that many coming back from the states were trying to pick up the dropped wing with opposite rudder! Subtly different and giving good potential for a spin, me thinks! Fast forward to New York with the A300 in the wake turbulence where a too hefty boot of rudder (picking up the dropped wing?) was used and broke the fin off......how exactly is stall recovery taught in the states? Makes you think......