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Old 04-08-2011, 12:41 PM
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None of the traditional piston multis were spun for certification, and the rumor about Barons being unrecoverable in a spin has been disproved. Lawyers had Beechcraft prove it to them at one point in order to defend against the so- called spin accidents that were happening in Barons back in the day. The company used one of the flight test pilots own airplanes since all the protos were gone by then. A friend of mine knows the pilots, and the story says they landed uneventfully after doing some number of intentional spins.
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