THE SPIN MANOEUVRE

Authors

  • C. Martin
  • D. Pilkington

Keywords:

Design, Training, Safety

Abstract

Aircraft spinning is an important area of design for general aviation and military aircraft, and has been so slnce the early days of aviation. In many of the major aeronautical laboratories in the world, aircraft spinning has been the subject of intensive periods of research. However, the resulting design criteria are still only adequate for predicting gross trends in aircraft spin behaviour. The aircraft designer has to decide upon an appropriate level of spin model testing or risk a flight development program with the prospect of major modifiiations. In this paper, the nature of tne spin manoeuvre is discussed, the information currently available for predicting aircraft spin behaviour is summarized and two methods of spin model testing are described.

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Vol. 12 No. 4 (1988)

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