Helos?? Nananananana, not for me, too many parts spinning 😀

Alex

No, not at all, it is quite well documented. This is from the Crowood book on the Swordfish and Albacore.

“Staniland continued to test fly the TSR.I throughout the summer of 1933, seemingly with few problems, until 11 September…
MH

Interesting indeed! 11 September???

Alex

There is the famous incident of the tst pilot from Fairey’s who jumped out of the prototype Swordfish, when it was in a flat spin, only to land in the back cockpit. He then had to jump again. He is one of few people to jump from the same aeroplane twice when the aeroplane was actually crashing!

another urban legend? Like the one of the pilot falling out of his Fury when on the top of a loop only to fall back in the cockpit when the plane completed the manouver by itself.. I’m not doubting about it, but u must admit that is courious at least! 😀

Alex

Rarely have I flown without a parachute.
I decided that after the spinning incident I would do a parachute jump, I ended up doing more than one 😀

forget about parachuting from a spinning plane.. Apart for the fact that (as discussed in another thread) sometimes parachuting from a plane can be deadly, the g loads of a spin summed with disorientation and fear of sitting in an out of control thing would not really leave much chances of getting out of it.. Many ppl consider the parachute a placebo..

Alex

P.S.
Tea’s ready! A cup of Earl Gray anybody? 😀

In italy the height limitation for ultralight flying is 500ft ground in working days and 1000ft ground in the other days.. Needless to say many ppl climb higher, but they were at around 1000ft.

Alex

I’ve heard of ATPLs who are afraid to fly single-engine aircraft!

A 777 pilot steps in front of a cessna, points the prop and asks the owner “Ok if this the APU where are the fans??” 😀 😀

Alex

needless to say this is one of the strangest posts I ever saw.. but as many others here it goes hopping from one topic to another in a hurry, so I guess the best thing to do is getting along with it..
I’m interested in the aircraft spinning thing as I always thought that a pilot must explore all the flight envelope of a machine to be able to adfirm “ok, I got the hang of it”. Accidents are a sad truth,but they almost always happen because of human error: it’s the instructor that have to be blamed, not the exercise..
Doing the thing in a sim is not the same, as every aircraft has its peculiar way of getting out of a spin: some of them need the classic “opposite rudder and neutral stick”, others want the full forward stick, others again dont simply wanna spin and get out by themselves, u can cross yr arms in front of yr face and scream and they’ll pop out in a hurry.. But u gotta do it, u have to see how yr body reacts to the thing, how many spins u need to get out, what’s the sinkrate.. In theory yr flight conduct should never put u in the position of entering a spin, but u might never know: I know a display pilot who was trying a stall in a high perfromance ultralight with an instructor, the stall was pretty abrupt and the instructor panicked, he thought they were entering a spin and gave full rudder, actually starting a spin himself.. it took them five complete spins with full rudder to get out of it, the only thing that saved them was height..
I guess the worst thing to happen is entering a spin and the only thing u r trained to do is thinking “now what the hell is going on here!?!?”

Alex

I think we still have some 35/50 years left, and anyway there are surely lots of areas to start digging, the point is that it will become more and more expensive.. additives are not the solution though, I mean they could be used of course, but this would drastically reduce the TBO and even the HPs. What really scares me is that we still dont have a valuable alternative to oil, so I wonder what all the vehicles in the world will have to use to keep going..

Alex