Spin (aerodynamics)
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In flight dynamics, a spin is a special category of stall resulting in autorotation about the aircraft's longitudinal axis and a shallow, rotating, downward path approximately centred on a vertical ax
Spin — an aggravated stall and autorotation
Lincoln Beachey with his plane
An Avro Type G
A 1963 Cessna 172D
Lockheed NF-104A
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The Lockheed NF-104A is an American mixed-power, high-performance, supersonic aerospace trainer that served as a low-cost astronaut training vehicle for the North American X-15 and projected Boeing X-
Spin (aerodynamics)
…phenomenon of unrecoverable spin characteristics. Another example of a nonrecoverable spin occurred in 1963, with Chuck Yeager at the controls of the NF-104A rocket-jet hybrid: during his fourth attempt at setting an altitude record, Yeager lost control and entered a spin, then ejected and survived. On the…
Lockheed NF-104A, 56-0756, climbing with rocket power
JF-104 during RCS testing.
The rocket engine - Lockheed NF-104A 56-0760
Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of an NF-104A, 4 December 1963