Eddie who??? ;o) >From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(flight)
In aviation's early days, spins were poorly understood and often fatal. Proper recovery procedures were unknown, and a pilot's instinct to pull back on the stick served only to make a spin worse. Because of this, the spin earned a reputation as an unpredictable danger that might snatch an aviator's life at any time, and against which there was no defense. The spin was initially explored by individual pilots performing ad-hoc experiments (often accidentally) and by aerodynamicists. In August 1912, Lieutenant Wilfred Parke RN became the first aviator to recover from an accidental spin when his Avro biplane entered a spin at 700 feet AGL in the traffic pattern at Larkhill. Parke attempted to recover from the spin by increasing engine speed, pulling back on the stick, and turning into the spin, with no effect. The aircraft descended 450 feet, and horrified observers braced themselves for a fatal crash. Parke was disabled by centrifugal forces but was still considering a means of escape. In an effort to neutralize the forces pinning him against the right side of the cockpit, he applied full right rudder, and the aircraft leveled out fifty feet[8] above the ground. With the aircraft now under control, Parke climbed, made another approach, and landed safely. In spite of the discovery of "Parke's technique," pilots were not taught spin-recovery procedures until the beginning of World War I. The first documented case of an intentional spin and recovery is that of Harry Hawker. In the summer of 1914, Hawker recovered from an intentional spin over Brooklands, England, by centralizing the controls. In 1917, Frederick Lindemann, conducted a series of experiments that led to the first understanding of the aerodynamics of the spin. ___________ Mike On 15/1/09 15:25, "bbartsey" <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think Ercoupers should be so in awe of a spin. Basically, all > you have to do to recover from one is neutralize the controls and wait > until you see something familiar, then recover. What you will see is a > stable nose down attitude (dive)which is easy to recover from. > I have flown only two aircraft that had a specific spin recovery > procedure using specific anti-spin control inputs and both of those > aircraft were military and they were jets. I have flown two civilian > aircraft that if you stalled , you were a test pilot. One was a Lear > Jet. > Thing to remember, if you don't have the elevator control pulled back > into your lap, you're not going to spin. In fact, if you push the > elevator control full forward, you will "fly" out of the spin as the > airspeed increases. I think that's what Eddie Stinson did when he was > the first to make a spin recovery. He figured he would go in with a > bang and instead the airplane recovered. > Bart ________________ Alon A2 A-188 G-HARY www.ercoupe.co.uk
