ONLY SECONDS TO LIVE PILOTS' TALES OF THE STALL AND THE SPIN
Written by Dunstan Hadley
Published by Airlife
in 1997
ISBN: 1853108774
ONLY SECONDS TO LIVE PILOTS' TALES OF THE STALL AND THE SPIN
Written by Dunstan Hadley.
Stock no. 2110774
1st.
1997.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
This book contains many first-hand accounts of both stall and spin phenomena from a wide range of sources. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 1853108774. Base of spine is bumped.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 The Beginning of Spinning
- Lilienthal and Wilbur and Orville Wright
- A.F. Berriman: Parke's Dive: from Flight
- Geoffrey de Havilland: from Sky Fever
- Edward Busk
- L.K. Blackmore: from Harry Hawker
- Frank T. Courtney: Spins and Things from Aeronautics
- Norman Macmillan: The Spin from Aeronautics
- Norman Macmillan: More History from Aeronautics
- Norman Macmillan: Aerospin Postscript from Aeronautics
- C. Draper: The Flap Spine from Aeronautics
- Norman Macmillan: Letter from Estonia from Aeronautics
- Part 2 Spinning in the Twenties and Thirties
- Richard Riding 'A flat spin': from Aeroplane Monthly
- Alec Lumsden: Gloster Gamecock from Aeroplane Monthly
- Richard Dennis: Armstrong Whitworth Ape from Aeroplane Monthly
- Alec Lumsden: Bristol Bulldog from Aeroplane Monthly
- Richard P. Hallion: from Test Pilots, The Frontier's Men of Flight
- Philip Wills: from On Being a Bird
- John Maynard: John Cunningham, from Aeroplane Monthly
- John S. Wilson: Flat Spins Letter from Aeroplane Monthly
- Richard P. Hallion: from Test Pilots, The Frontier's Men of Flight
- Part 3 The Forties, Fifties, Sixties and Seventies
- N. Roy Harben: from The Complete Flying Course
- John Kilbracken: Four Spins of Interest from Bring Back my Stringbag
- D.I. Hadley: Barracuda Spin
- Eric 'Winkle' Brown: from Wings of the Weird and Wonderful
- Eric 'Winkle' Brown: from Wings on My Sleeve
- Charles 'Chuck' Yeager: from Yeager
- Richard P. Hallion: Gotterdammerung of the Bell X-2: from Test Pilots
- W.A. 'Bill' Waterton: from The Quick and the Dead
- Roland 'Bee' Beamont: Spinning and the P 1A: from Aeroplane Monthly
- Royal Air Force Manual: Stalling and Spinning
- Charles 'Chuck' Yeager: Going for Another Record, from Yeager
- Derek Piggott: Spinning in Gliders, from Gliding
- Darrol Stinton: Anatomy of Spinning Article, from Flight International
- 'Aerodynamicist': Article from Flight International
- D.L. Hadley: Hang Glider Spine
- Part 4 The Pros and Cons of Stalling and Spinning
- M.G. McDonnell: To Spin or Not to Spin Letter from Flight International
- Ray Di Masico: Response to M.G. McDonnell Letter from Flight International
- Harry W. Hathorne: The Controversy Continues Letter from Flight International
- UK Tomahawks Re-Cleared for Spinning from Flight International
- John Stanley Owen: To Spin or Not to Spine, from International Journal of Aviation Safety
- General Aviation Safety Committee: To Spin or Not to Spin
- John C. Ward, D.L. Hadley: The Pupil's Point of View
- Dave Martin: Going for a Spin? Call Gene Beggs First, from Private Pilot
- Maurie Bradney: from Basic Gliding Knowledge
- Part 5 Into the Nineties
- A.C. Kermode: from Mechanics of Flight
- Miles McCallum: The Deadliest Myth, from Flyer
- Mike Cuming: Don't Pull the Stick, Push It, from Sailplane and Gliding
- Derek Piggott: Stalling or Low g. from Sailplane and Gliding
- Charles Bremner: Fatal Nosedive of Flight 585 Baffles Experts, from The Times
- Lou Frank: To Spin or Not to Spine, from Sailplane and Gliding
- Bill Scull: Teaching Stalling and Spinning, from Sailplane and Gliding
- I.K.A.G. Wilson: The CAA View
- CC. Coton: The Ministry of Defence View
- R. Irving: The Cranwell View
- Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Non-stalling, Non-spinning Aircraft from Wings of the Weird and Wonderful
- Finally
- Index