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Old 05-19-2003 | 11:50 PM
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Default How do you make a plane spin?

Technically a spin is a complete stall. Spins are entered with a high angle of attack at stall speed. When stall speed is reached full rudder is kicked in and the airplane begins to spin. At this point both wings are stalled and the airplane spins slowly, almost flat with a nose low attitude. if it is more vertical it is known as a spiral. To exit a spin you will need to neutral the stick and feed in opposite rudder. Now that s a spin in a full size aircraft, A model will do it like that but most of the time unless you have a ton of rudder you need to feed in aileron the same direction. Recovery is basically the same. When you get really brave you can cross control and watch each spin gain RPM. before you know it youll be doing 20 turn spins (spirals) and recovering on heading. With power on it will tend to flatten out the spin, if it will spin w/ power. A power on spin should be entered with power off and at stall full power applied during rudder deflection. other wise you are probably just snap rolling the aircraft, or rudder rolling it.

Hope it helps.

JB

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