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Old 11th Dec 2013, 16:19
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Originally Posted by wsmempson
I was taken flying in a PA38 some years ago, where the owner spun it and told me to look at the tail, which wobbled and shook like a loosely made blancmange. Genuinely scary...
Particularly if you have no basic understanding of the concepts of aeroelasticity.

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