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Old May 12th 09, 12:54 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andreas Maurer[_1_]
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Default Spin recovery vs tail design

On Tue, 12 May 2009 01:25:24 +0200, John Smith
wrote:


It may quicken up the recovery, but JAR-22 requires a sailplane to
recover with any flap setting.


Indeed - but many gliders who are still popular were designed before
JAR-22.
I'm always amazed about how much easier the ASW-27 handles in this
regard compared to a, say, ASW-20.

Bye
Andreas