Houston JS1c crash ONLY (not in any way about a Puchaczs, or anything else!)

On Sunday, July 20, 2014 8:31:41 PM UTC-6, wrote:
Yes, it's been done before. There's a great story about the Schweizer 1-35

flight test with one tank full and the other empty. Bernie Carras (who

was the corporate test pilot for a long time) had a hard time getting

the spin to break. It finally recovered fairly low, and he landed the

plane. He gave the plane a few extra kicks once he got out, just for

good measure!



Matt

I doubt if my father ever kicked the prototype 1-35.

The problem was not with spinning the sailplane with water in one wing, that was ok, but when it was in a tail heavy flat spin with a lot of jettisonable lead at the tail that did not jettison as it should have, but finally did.

Mike