How long before the century ?
I cast my mind back to 1948, when Auster's Chief Test Pilot would not have allowed me to go SOLO until I could Stall and Spin. And then Recover.
( Later, at Hamble similar exercises were done towards a CPL. And in the Link Trainer, too.)
Horatio Barber's 1917 edition of " The Aeroplane Speaks" says:
Stall, to - " To give or allow an aeroplane an angle of incidence greater than the "maximum" angle, the result being a fall in the lift-drift ratio, the lift consequently becoming less than the weight of the aeroplane, which must then fall, ie. "Stall" or "Pancake".
Spinning recovery was tested at Farnborough in about 1917, by Frederick Lindemann, a 29 year old physicist, who had learned to fly.
LT
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