On Tue, 24 May 2005 03:46:44 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Don Tuite wrote:

See:

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

I didn't see anything in there about the origination of the term "tailspin." If
you inferred from the article that the author made it up to aquire a name for
his character, this is certainly not true.

I was establishing a provenance for the term dating back to at least
1928.

Don