Snip

On the Turkey spin; DD Smith and Pete Angelina put one in the bay at
Strike. They still show the film at TPS. Interesting that the airplane
recovered itself after the ejections altered the erect spin mode.

--
Dudley Henriques

The simulator would spin flat too. If you swept the wings and began pumping
the stick, the nose would eventually fall through enough to effect recovery.
BUT

In the aircraft, the pilot was experiencing about 5 G eyeball out. Tough to
do anything with the flight controls when you're munching on the armament
control panel. I think that the ejection (action/reaction, thank you very
much Mr. Newton) was sufficient to push the nose down into the recovery.

Normally, you had to really hamburger the aircraft to spin it. BUT, an
engine snuffed at high AOA was experienced as a wing dropping off. Just a
little bit of inadvertent differential tail and off you went. I suspect the
DFC had a dramatic improvement at the limit, albeit at some penalty to those
who were really good at the limit.

R / John