Powers was clearly the dominant rider this afternoon, hanging about 18 feet above the pipe like an astronaut in a zero-G capsule and sticking multiple-rotation inverted spins.
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*1943 Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning, 42-12937, flown by Col . Ben Kelsey, gets into inverted spin during dive flap test, loses one wing and entire tail section.
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*1957 Royal Canadian Air Force Avro Canada CF-100 Mk . 4B, 18455, pulled up, flamed out, went into inverted spin and at the Canadian International Air Show, Toronto, Ontario.
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*1944 Second of only two Bell XP-77-BE lightweight fighters completed out of a contract for six, 43-34916, crashes when pilot attempts an Immelmann turn resulting in an inverted spin during testing at the Air Proving Ground, Eglin Field, Florida.
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Because of the Tomcat's widely spaced engine nacelles, compressor stalls at high AOA were especially dangerous because they tended to produce asymmetric thrust that could send the Tomcat into an upright or inverted spin, from which recovery was very difficult.
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Finally, on 1 May 1950, during low-speed sideslip and stall tests, the first prototype, " TG283 ", was lost in a crash at Hartley Wintney killing the pilot, Sqn Ldr George E . C . Genders AFC DFM . After abandoning the aircraft at low altitude in an inverted spin, his parachute failed to open in time.
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No longer satisified as a backroom player surviving on royalties, the three-year old company is betting on Blackley's vision that there's a big audience of arm chair pilots who would spend hours in front of their personal computers to both learn to fly, and to perform such aerobatic maneuvers _ explained in a 100-page manual _ as Immerman rolls, Cuban Eights, hammerheads and inverted spins.
