On the record attempt on March 13, 2014, Suderman entered an
inverted spin at just above 23,000 feet and made 81 turns before recovering at 2000 feet AGL.
For example, my first experience with an
inverted spin. I told my mother about it:
The now-solitary pilot attempted to regain control but the chute had wrapped itself around both the rudder and elevator, ultimately resulting in what the pilot described as an
inverted spin. At which point the pilot said "Uncle" and headed overboard with his own chute while everybody watched it spin into the ground.
On one of those training flights, Bill ended up in a F8T Cougar Jet in an
inverted spin at 30,000 feet.
Tom pulled back on his throttle to stand on his tail to make himself as difficult as possible to hit but John's controls had been shot away by shell fire ``He tried to roll over so that he could bail out but he went into an
inverted spin which once you're in is very difficult to get out of,'' Tom explains quietly.``I saw a flash of white just before he hit the drink so he must have tried to pull his chute just before it was too late.'' Through inquiries via the Imperial War Graves department he discovered that his friend's body had been recovered by German forces and given a proper burial in Holland.
In an
inverted spin the plane is on its back and keeps twisting around with the wings horizontal to the ground so that when I opened the belt the force of gravity dropped me from the plane.
For those who must, the permitted -5 G aerobatics makes an outside loop or even an English blunt and
inverted spin fair game.
I entered an
inverted spin at about 2500 feet and correctly did the normal recovery procedure of throttle closed, opposite rudder and stick forward.
On a fateful Friday the 13th, while in a jet fighter trainer - the Cougar - he found himself upside down in an
inverted spin. Unable to stop the spin, he and his student ejected at 10,000 feet.
The training flight was to include a demonstration by the instructor of the Hands-Off method during an intentional, normal
inverted spin. Several turns into the failed recovery attempt, the instructor called "bail out." The student successfully exited the airplane; the instructor did not.
Sims still can't reproduce the kinesthetic sensations of, say,
inverted spins, but they're cheaper and safer than the airplane for many things.
