Foxmoth.
My feeling is that the chippy is an ungainly bird on the ground. A pawnee looks better.
l respect your feelings. Obviously l don`t agree, but this is real life and l have to tell it as l feel it.
As for spin training l`m just repeating what was happening in the 70`s, with caa guides to the issuing of ppl`s.
Off and on like a whores drawers. ( my chances of spelling that correctly after a few ..... ? ).
Unspinnable aircraft.
Alexander Sliecker - ok, hands up with that one - produced the Ask 21, a
fairly benign 2 seat trainer which had to be loaded with lead weights on a
threaded bar through the tail fin to induce it to lurch towards the down
going wing, at which point it would recover itself - unless a little too much
weight was added at which point the nose would rise to slightly above the
horizon and all sounds of airflow would stop.
Low noise.
Lack of control effectiveness.
High rate of sink.
l won`t bore you with the other stall indications, but it was an after market mod designed as an after thought for the K23.
A single seat first solo machine that could not spin.
My brief for the first solo ( not a few l may add ) was to move the stick
forward and back, find the mid point, keep it there whilst balancing the
wings. It will fly when ready. The nose wheel was regularly stoven in by
the people who didn`t know that the elevator woke up after the
mainplane, so that if the stick wasn`t on its way forward when the wing
produced lift it was on its way back. The end result was the same.
Oodles of people went on to fly powered aircraft after this training.
Sorry about the delay. but the facts are correct. (1500hrs on the K21)