On Friday, March 29, 2013 7:18:42 AM UTC-6, JJ Sinclair wrote:
Actually, we parked a F-111F on the south side of Carson Sink east of Fallon, NV in 1972. Got her into a spin at 20,000 feet. After holding stick full forward, rudder neutral and roll-augmentation off for 8000 feet, we raised the little handles........everything worked as advertised. Sure is nice to have a readily available back up plan.

JJ

I think I confused that with one that happened while I was at McClellan in the early 1980's that ended near the RR tracks near Roseville. Certainly more 'interesting'.

Frank