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To: Dan(9698)
The technical cause of a spin is when one wing stalls and the other does not...

OK, you're right. Got me on that one. ;-P

A snap roll is a horizontal spin, and the airplane is not near its "stall speed".

That one would be an "accelerated stall". "Vstall times square root of load factor", and all that.

DC-10 ... Everything is more crititcal while taking off or landing.

Recall Capt. Haynes did manage to land more-or-less "successfully" in that configuration.

Though he never did manage to make it work afterwards in the flight simulator.

I guess he had more incentive the first time. ;-)

99 posted on 06/01/2004 9:43:54 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (...and Freedom tastes of Reality)
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To: DuncanWaring
>>>...Though he never did manage to make it work afterwards in the flight simulator.

I read a recent story where a cargo plane took off from Bagdad and had their hydraulics knocked out by a shoulder launched rocket.

They used the same routine and returned successfully to the airport. They credited it to practicing on simulator.

As I recall, there was a third pilot on the DC 10 that came forward and ran the throttles. I do not know if he survived the landing.

100 posted on 06/01/2004 10:24:45 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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