On Mon, 23 May 2005 16:11:35 -0400, Corky Scott
wrote:


I'm not absolutely sure about this but I kind of thought there was a
time when "tailspin" was what a spin was called, by everyone.

This might have been around the first WW or during the barnstorming
period afterward, but I believe it was part of the popular vocabulary.

See:

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Tailspin.htm

Don
(it shouldn't have been necessary to point this out to someone named
after a character in Gasoline Alley. |;^} 8 )