scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) (09/10/85)
> >At an airshow here in Oxnard, CA I watched Bob Herendeen perform an > >inverted FLAT spin having 24 turns. > > Wow - nice trick. What kind of plane was he driving? Better yet, how At Oshkosh this year, I witnessed someone (maybe Bob Herendeen) do an 18 turn inverted flat spin. He started VERY high, with very little forward speed. The tail kicked around, the forward motion stopped, and he was falling. (Smoke billowing out made for a very pretty sight.) Recovery just sort of happened! One minute it was spinning, the next minute the nose dropped and he pulled out! I was watching very carefully to try to see how he'd recover, and I really can't figure it out. The plane was a T-720 (I think that's right) which I believe is very much like Leo Loudenslager's Laser (a modified Spinks Acrostar?) Scott Wiesner {allegra, ucbvax, hao}!nbires!scott