At 11:07 PM 11/16/2002 +0000, Ian Woollard wrote:
Ok, I checked, looks like you're right, I'd heard otherwise. And probably the only reason it was unrecoverable was because he lost his hydraulics because his jet stalled out, normally, most aircraft do kick out of a spin in fact.
It seems that the F-104 was one of the few a/c with very bad spin recovery capability. It had a spin recovery chute. If the a/c spun and the chute didn't break the spin, SOP was to eject.
-p
-IanPierce Nichols wrote:At 07:00 PM 11/16/2002 +0000, Ian Woollard wrote:As an example, Chuck Yeager once got into an unrecoverable spin when he lost some of his HTP thrusters during reentry from high altitude. I don't know what caused that- actually the comments I saw indicated Chuck didn't know either- but it's not unlikely that it was an electrical problem; and electrical issues are often sensitive to vibration, and can be discovered in such testing.
The story I heard about that accident was that the zoom climb was off for some reason, so the apogee was too low. As a result, the air was sufficiently thick as to make it impossible for the thrusters to get the nose down in time, and therefore the aircraft went into a flat spin.
-p
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