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1960
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FLIGHT, 12 August I960 Aerobatics for Beginners BY HUMPHREY WYNN • "FLIGHT"PICTURES BY IAN MACDONALD Basic Manoeuvres in a Jet Provost T.3 AT about 1120 one morning last month I suddenly found/A myself flying inverted over the Nottinghamshire country- x -*• side, at about 6,000ft, in a Hunting Jet Provost T.3. My Pilot, Fit Lt Norman Clayton of No 2 Flying Training Schoolat Syerston, trimmed the aircraft to fly hands off and then rested his elbows on the coaming above the instrument panel. This wasnot a calculated gesture, but it could not have been better designed to give me confidence in the Jet Provost's behaviour as an aero-oatic mount. My eood opinion of its amenable dualities was further enhanced when Norman Clayton later showed me what is calledrecovery from the vertical." In this manoeuvre the aircraft is put into a vertical climb as for a stall turn. But instead of rudder being applied at the approach of the stall the wings are kept straight, wi:h the tip-tanks at about 85° to the horizon. As speed falls off the stick is held centrally, then as all forward movement is lost the Jet Provost either noses over or falls back into a vertical dive, the usual recovery procedure ben1? applied. This manoeuvre is shown to pupils before they embark on stall turns, to indicate how the aircraft behaves when standing on its tail and bereft of forward speed. I had gone to No 2 FTS for an aerobatic sortie in statu pupillari, to see how aerobatics are taught to RAF pupil pilots doing their
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