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Old 05-28-2020 | 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave Wilshere
The Serpant is limited in turbine size unless Ian has modified the design, last one I was involved with used a KT 85

John, I think he’s thinking of DG!
Yes it WAS my BVM T 33 which hit the hangar, it seems to bother Kruze !
That T33 had spun at the slightest opportunity, a tendency that had been reduced by various aerodynamic tweeks. ( Upset ailerons, root spoilers etc.) The fatal flight was going to be its last, I,d had enough of the spinning, pity it ended that way !

Several guys told me THEIR T 33s had also tended to spin easily. The root cause ( excuse the pun) was eventually trace to the cusp on the wing root which BVM eventuallY removed as it was on their F80. That seemed to fix the problem.

The T33 spun off a lowish speed wing over, it happens as we have seen in the Kamloops Snowbird tragedy last week where a low speed wingover following an EFATO resulted in a spin, the jet crashing into a house, one pilot ejecting and surviving, the other so sadly died.

Anyway welcome back John, perhaps we may meet up again at a CJ.