The following is an excerpt by RE Gillman, former Senior Training Captain BEA Elizabethan Fleet, circa 1957, Croydon Aerodrome: Spinning the Chipmunk
The spinning exercise was somewhat unusal, and having been forewarned by this, I was rather curious to try it out. On introducing the spin with full rudder at the stall in the normal manner, the aircraft begain to rotate fairly fast, but the speed increased although the stick was still held back, and at 100 knots, the whole manoeuvre was noisy and uncomfortable, but recovery was simple enough, though at rather high airspeed during the ensuing dive. Although the aircraft turns at such a speed as to give an impression of autorotation, it can still be nothing more than a spiral dive. A full spin was achieved by applying opposite aileron, after the stick had been brought back centrally, thus stalling the inside wing completely on a subsequent occassion, and the resulting spin was fast clean, and a positive forward movement of the stick was required to regain control.
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