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Ok. Who died? The fish it hit in the water? Both pilot and rio punched successfully Do your homework, guy.

finally they could have control it... couldnt?

Poossies....it corrected itself. Why didn't they sweep the wing? CG would have gone forward. The making of future Cirrus pilots I guess.

One of my first flight instructors was a P-51 pilot during the war, he said if the Mustang was still spinning by 10,000, bail out.

in ace combat 7 i just give it some gas and that pretty much fixes everything

Title is misleading. It was not fatal, no one died.

Probably 🤔

Hmmm. I've seen a lot of posts saying a flat spin is unrecoverable, and the reasons they give all make perfect sense. Found some interesting articles on the nature of flat spins, too. But it seems the Tomcat was notorious for it. Was there a design flaw?

this is and was a waste of tax funds.

Thing was nose down which could have been recovered from there if it had of had sufficient altitude

3 Words: Center of Gravity. That and the denser air down low caused the plane to stabilize on its own. The loss of 300-400kgs shifted the CG back and made the plane tumble out of the spin. Usually, it would be tried to move the cg forward. I heard it's the reason why many Tomcats flew with at least 2 Sparrows below the nose, to keep always the CG a bit on the forward side. A quick change of GG, like demonstrated here will also help immensely, even if it'd not forward. I tried to demonstrate this in DCS on my channel, take a look if you want.

When I was a kid in 5th grade, the smartest kid in my grade told me about this phenomenon. That was about 55 years ago and this is the first time I've actually seen it.

Why didn't they try changing the wings position backwards? That would have made a huge difference in CG and aerodynamics and almost certainly taking it out of the flat spin. Am I wrong?

Dual compressor stall at rotation number two and a half.. unless they closed the fuel valves which I doubt they would do in a simulation. Looks like it got out of the spin (but remained in a stall) on its own just prior to impact despite the increased aft CG incurred by the ejection. What a fascinating piece of footage. Hats (helmets?) off to test pilots who go out and do this stuff to collect data so that others may live.

Can someone explain what causes this? I’ve always loved the F-14. Is it still flown today?

I’m amazed how balanced the plane was on its way down continuously righting its self during its tumble.

The G-force on the pilot would have been immense. 2.3 seconds per rotation. I just counted 30 rotations and took the time. This is an Angular Velocity (ω) of around 2.73 radians/second Estimated Distance of pilot from Center of Rotation (r)11 meters Using ω²⋅r/g G-Load: 8.36 Gs Sustained 8Gs for over a minute 😲

That wasn’t fatal. Next.

Maverick: "GOOSE EJECT EJECT WATCH THE CANOPY"

Watch this playing Wiener Walzer 😂

Trying to perfect the "falling leaf" manouver before it really appeared

R.I.P. Goose!

How come it left the spin after the crew ejected?

😢right before it goes into the sea it came out of the spin.... funny if auto pilot had landed it.

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R.I.P Goose.

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haha. It recovered by itself after they crew ejected. NOOBS!

seems as soon as they ejected, the plane started fixing itself so Im guessing if the pilot had released the controls the aircraft could have possibly been saved

It looks like the aerodynamics after ejection favoured the recovery.

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Looks like the airplane recovered by itself at the end of the footage.

Is it just me, or did the aircraft "recover" somewhat before impact (pilot had already ejected)? The attitude had definitely improved after he punched out.

Not "fatal" : "F-14a bureau number 159826 crashed at NAS Patuxent River after entering the first F-14 flat spin while conducting aileron/rudder interconnect tests. Strike Aircraft Directorate Chief Test Pilot CDR D.D. Smith and RIO LCDR Pete Angelina ejected successfully"

F14 with a pilot -> spin. F14 without pilot -> auto recover. Nice.

God, I heaved a huge sigh of relief the moment I saw the canopy separation.

Wow I’m dizzy… 🤢

A Version I would guess?

Once the pilot and RIO got out the aircraft damn near saved itself.

The F-14 recovery procedure is for the Pilot to let go of the stick, and no rudder pedal.

В конце самолёт сам вышел из штопора, но пилоты вышли из кабинета 😊

Comments section full of people bragging about themselves as usual 🙄🙄🙄

And finally it became stable with the seats ejected. The forces are the main problem because that is a bad rollercoaster ride. If one would have been able too, a change of the wingangle often changes the flat spin to a steeper one with more wing speed and fewer aerodynamical turn surface - so this might be a solution out in some situations if the mechanics/hydraulics can handle it!

Relight Push forward Opposite rudder kick And don’t be afraid of that handle!!

Hah, it's strange but without pilots the plane just stabilazed. so there was a chance to recover.

It seemed to self-correct itself once the humans were out. If someone figured out how an airplane can do that on its own, perhaps this deadly flat spill would be survivable. Was it because it went nose down at one point? Sped up and got back to flying shortly before it hit the water.

I remember this. Miramar,1987. During training one F-14 flew into the another F-14's jet wash and it caused a flameout in the second plane. That jet went into a flat spin over the sea (ocean) and crashed. Both pilots ejected but the RIO was killed in the ejection. Very sad.

Amazing. They put billions into aircraft development and millions into aircrew training. These guys are the best of the best, he stuck with it for 55 rotations at 7.5G before he punched out & there's a bunch of armchair top guns explaining how to recover. At least the gamers were funny.

I thought you could pull out of a flat spin easily in a f-14 tomcat

You spinnin, you ain’t grinning!