Originally Posted by Airbubba
The claim that aerobatic experience helped with recovery from the improper leading edge configuration is remniscent of Captain 'Hoot' Gibson's high altitude TWA 841 upset years ago
Hoot said at the time that his aerobatic training allowed him to regain control of the aircraft.
Had Capt. Hoot not been one to
play around with trying to deploy trailing edge flaps (by pulling circuit breakers and repositioning the flap handle) to gain more altitude capability at the existing gross weight (which, by the way, was beyond the authorizations in the manual), he wouldn’t have had to rely on his aerobatic experience to save his backside and that of the rest of the airplane's occupants!
