Word: tailspins
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...diameter, has an observation platform surrounding it, a propeller to furnish a 50-m.p.h. blast of air. Some 300 pairs of eyes, including Col. Lindbergh's, fairly popped as they watched a 3-1 scale model demonstrate how an airplane behaves in the dreaded tailspin...
Having lived chiefly in France since 1890, he sailed at last in December 1928, for Brazil. His return was an heroic but tragic event. The official plane Alberto Santos-Dumont flew forth to greet the hero apropos, fell into a tailspin, drowned all 14 greeters. Alberto Santos-Dumont never recovered from the shock...
...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
...Clark III, 36, grandson of the late Montana copper tycoon and Senator, William Andrews Clark, who in 1925 left a fortune of $50,000,000; instantly, when an airplane in which he was flying a few miles from his estate near Phoenix, Ariz, plunged 2,000 ft. in a tailspin...
...reverse is not true. If a 'giro-trained pilot should go up in an airplane, throttle down the engine and pull back on the control-stick, as he may safely do in a 'giro, he would have his first-possibly his last-experi-ence with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary private pilot's license which entitled him to fly any licensed aircraft...