Originally Posted by
megan
Do any of you have experience with spinning the aircraft both before and after the introduction of the spin strakes? Interested in the change in characteristics. Flew them without the strakes and seemed to have no problem, providing recovery was done by the book - never tried experimenting to prove the veracity of the book mind.
Likewise with the Tiger Moth, never flew one with strakes, and never had a problem. Perhaps Danny42C may be in a position and able to comment on the Tiger. Strakes were never adopted on either type here in Australia.
I recollect (could have been on Prune) reading an account by someone who sat there and flew up to, IIRC, about 10,000ft and spun it down. After a quite a few turns it went flat and took a long time to recover
Not sure if it was pre or post strakes.