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Originally Posted by Crumpp
This is just not true. Spinning an aircraft that is not approved is just plain stupid. The only people that do it are those who do not understand the aerodynamics.
There is a good reason it is not approved to spin. Reason's like it does not recover for example.
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I am sorry but that is plain wrong. If you look at almost any aircraft in the RAF at almost any time you will see that it says intentional spinning is banned. That includes the Spitfire, however it doesn't stop the fact that spinning is undertaken.
Pilots had to be trained to get out of a spin in a combat aircraft, and therefore you have to be in a spin to learn how the aircraft behaves. In reality it means that it should be done under supervision not as a matter of course until experience has been gained
Corkscrewing as an evasion technique is far more violent than a spin but all RAF bombers including Halifax and Lancasters undertook such a method.
This is one area I can speak of with some experience. When I started learning to spin some of this was undertaken in a Hunter T8. If you look at the pilots notes for the Hunter you will find, yes you guessed it, intentional spinning is banned.
Re the comment someone made about arguing with non engineers, I served in the RN as an airframes and engines artificer in the early 70's if that is of interest.
Just an observation, but the RAF never needed to develop a two seat Spit or Hurricane and trained many thousands of pilots to fly them. But the Luftwaffe needed to develop two seat 109's with the inevitable distruption on the design and production teams, presumably because they needed to.