Word: tailspinning
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...Angeles last week Pilot L. H. Atkinson, about to take a plane up for testing, climbed out of the cockpit at the last minute to borrow a parachute. In the air a few minutes later the plane fell into a tailspin from which Pilot Atkinson could not pull out. With his borrowed 'chute, he jumped...
...power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into a gentle landing. Grinning, Long Lance clambered from his cockpit to face school discipline for his antics. But he was let off with a warning...