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Old 18th February 2003 | 21:41
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flickoff
 
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HWD, not necessarily. I'm no expert on the logic/maths of this stuff, but it seems to me that an a/c can only spin if it's stalled. This may seem passe, but what is the stall speed of your aircraft- wrong answer proably, whatever you said.

There you are fat dumb and happy pootling round some turn or other, doesn't matter where, and you pull a bit to get round the turn, perhaps to maintain hieght. Now you are in say a 2G turn, suddlenly the stall speed you thought you had is now way to slow, keep pulling and adding G and up goes the stall speed. Bingo high speed spin entry. Whizzo fun, or not depends on what you expected!

You do not have to be at a jaunty attidude to spin. If you think that you do, I strongly suggest you go and get some spin training in something hot that will demo all this stuff in saftely -4G pulls and spin entries in a warrior are probably not a good thing, unless you have a death wish.

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