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Old 28th February 2003 | 12:57
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stiknruda
 
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Final 3 greens...

I, too until very recently (Wednesday evening!) thought that an aeroplane can not spin unless it is stalled...

Gene Beggs, perhaps a little pedantically, in his fine book states that an aeroplane will spin if the application of rudder causes the downgoing wing to stall.

If you think of a flick roll entry (an autorotation in the horizontal plane; ie a spin!) this is exactly what happens...

as the stick comes back you hoof in rudder and it snaps into a spin.

Formation Flyer is also right - the time between the two events can be measured in nano-seconds and not very many of them!

Ho hum, all ready to go flying but the viz and ceiling here are dictating otherwise.


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