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Old 5th Jul 2009, 09:13
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"The rotational speed of a large aircraft in a spin or flat spin would be slow. Approximately 3-4 secs per rev?"

Unless my maths have let me down , with a revolution every 4 seconds, then the tail would have been rotating sideways at circa 100mph - this is a significant speed.

David
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