C172 crash at Coney Island

I like the report that says the plane's engine stalled, and then it went
into a tailspin! I suppose the same reporter would say it did a
"wheelie" on takeoff!

"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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I like the report that says the plane's engine stalled, and then it went
into a tailspin! I suppose the same reporter would say it did a
"wheelie" on takeoff!

Yea, a tailspin is an interesting maneuver.
I think that means that the tail of the airplane went into a spin, whereas
the rest of the plane was still on level flight. Which is a logical reason
for going down, given that probably the tail wasn't attached to the airplane
anymore.
Anybody has a better insight about tailspins?

Anybody has a better insight about tailspins?

Isn't that how Beechcraft promoted it's ruddevator?

Jose
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On Mon, 23 May 2005 17:41:00 +0200, Greg Farris
wrote:

I like the report that says the plane's engine stalled, and then it went
into a tailspin! I suppose the same reporter would say it did a
"wheelie" on takeoff!

I'm not absolutely sure about this but I kind of thought there was a
time when "tailspin" was what a spin was called, by everyone.

This might have been around the first WW or during the barnstorming
period afterward, but I believe it was part of the popular vocabulary.

Corky Scott

On Mon, 23 May 2005 16:11:35 -0400, Corky Scott
wrote:


I'm not absolutely sure about this but I kind of thought there was a
time when "tailspin" was what a spin was called, by everyone.

This might have been around the first WW or during the barnstorming
period afterward, but I believe it was part of the popular vocabulary.

See:

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Tailspin.htm

Don
(it shouldn't have been necessary to point this out to someone named
after a character in Gasoline Alley. |;^} 8 )

Don Tuite wrote:

See:

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Tailspin.htm

I didn't see anything in there about the origination of the term "tailspin." If
you inferred from the article that the author made it up to aquire a name for
his character, this is certainly not true. The term "tailspin" was used during
WWI to describe some sort of spin, and French (at least) pilots were required to
demonstrate recovery from one before being assigned to combat. Nodhoff & Hall
state that "the tailspin had a bad reputation in those days" when writing about
their flight training in "Falcons of France." Both flew for France during the
Great War, and Norhoff was one of the top French aces.

George Patterson
"Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got
no clothes on - and are up to somethin'.

On Tue, 24 May 2005 03:46:44 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Don Tuite wrote:

See:

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Tailspin.htm

I didn't see anything in there about the origination of the term "tailspin." If
you inferred from the article that the author made it up to aquire a name for
his character, this is certainly not true.

I was establishing a provenance for the term dating back to at least
1928.

Don