"Dan Luke" wrote in
m:


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote:

A contestant
who spun a B-29 model in this setting would get a very poor score,
indeed.


Don't know why, they would have spun test the original!

No ****?

Never thought about that.

Doubt if the SM judges would go for it, anyway. Especially that many
turns and flat, too.


Well, if one of the prototypes went flat!

But yeah, they spun tested everything back then. It could either spin and
recover or not be spinnable at all. I can't see why the B 29 woulnd't have
spun and recovered fairly well. Nothing aerodynamically funky about it.
All light aircraft had to be certified for spins or unspinnable up to the
mid fifties. Some airplanes slipped throught the net, though and are
placarded against today. The PA 23, for instance.


Bertie