"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
Moving this older post back to the top of the blog with a fresh update about another mixed-power aircraft I missed the first time around: the Navy’s North American AJ Savage. — Paul Props and jets on the same aircraft, that is. Last year, when I visited the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California, […]
THROTTLES—IDLE RUDDER AND AILERONS—NEUTRAL STICK—ABRUPTLY FULL AFT AND HOLD RUDDER—ABRUPTLY APPLY FULL RUDDER OPPOSITE SPIN DIRECTION (OPPOSITE TURN NEEDLE) AND HOLD STICK—ABRUPTLY FULL FORWARD ONE TURN AFTER APPLYING RUDDER CONTROLS—NEUTRAL AFTER SPINNING STOPS AND RECOVER FROM DIVE That, if you don’t recognize it, is the boldface spin recovery procedure for the T-37. Student pilots could […]