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Subject:Re: Spin Training, Your Opinions, Please
From:George R. Patterson III
Date:Thu Aug 31 07:07:13 2000
William W. Plummer wrote:
>
> Somebody said, ...
> > The spin, was the preferred method for planes in the WWI era
>
> I dont believe that is true because I read somewhere that a spin was
> believed to be unrecoverable until the 20s or 30s.

Nope. In "Falcons of France", Nordhoff and Hall (both experience fighter
pilots) stated that spins were taught. The book does state that "at that
time, the tail spin had a bad reputation" and pilots were taught to
avoid it.

George Patterson, N3162Q.

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