John Carrier wrote:
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


They were testing for a new erect spin mode at Strike using the #619
engine test bed Turkey. They got it past PSG and it went flat. I can't
remember if he used asymmetrical thrust and in spin aileron to make it
go flat, but it did, and it accelerated to boot. The aoa was of course
pegged and the aircraft had a fluctuating low level airspeed.

DD was actually -7 sitting out front but Pete was almost through the
spin axis so his ride was much smoother.
They couldn't recover the aircraft. DD couldn't even reach the curtain
as you might imagine :-)
They finally got out. DD barely got his hands on the front handle but
just enough to fire the seat.
They recovered them both from the bay.

DD showed us a photograph of his face taken in the hospital several days
after the incident. You wouldn't believe how he looked. To me he looked
like he had been in a fight with a T Rex who had done a job on his face.
Every capillary in his eyes was ruptured and he was puffed out like no
tomorrow.

Best news was that they both survived. DD became a banker out in Ca.




--
Dudley Henriques