Robert wrote :
The manual
says that spins beyond one turn may not be recoverable (the test
pilot
only had the guts to do one turn ).

That sounds fishy. One turn is all that the FAA requires, but I
doubt the pilot was scared to do more. When spin testing a design,
aircraft are normally equipped with spin chutes that deploy from the
tail and arrest the spin. They can then be jettisoned for a normal
approach and landing. They are pretty common in GA spin testing. My
bet is that the test pilot was instructed by Mooney to do the one
required turn and call it a day.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


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