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Question about B-24 Flat Spin

Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:00 pm

Have a couple of questions that have arisen from research concerning the above subjected... anyone interested in helping out can respond.

thanks

Re: Question about B-24 Flat Spin

Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:51 pm

I just put 'spin characteristics of Consolidated B-24' into GOOGLE and landed in the middle of a 10 year old breath holding competetion among several individuals on spinning a B-24

Re: Question about B-24 Flat Spin

Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:41 pm

It's usually the un-spinning that ends up being the problem.

Re: Question about B-24 Flat Spin

Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:50 pm

mike furline wrote:It's usually the un-spinning that ends up being the problem.

How true! The Yankee TR-2 is placarded against intentional spins since it was discovered in testing that if you entered a spin near Jupiter, you didn't have enough altitude to recover, comforting thought for a trainer :roll:

Re: Question about B-24 Flat Spin

Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:46 pm

The Inspector wrote:
mike furline wrote:It's usually the un-spinning that ends up being the problem.

How true! The Yankee TR-2 is placarded against intentional spins since it was discovered in testing that if you entered a spin near Jupiter, you didn't have enough altitude to recover, comforting thought for a trainer :roll:


And in a Cirrus, spin recovery is about $100,000.00, as the only way out is to pull the big handle.
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