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In Air Force Flight school I learned this maneuver was
known as the "dead man's turn".
A couple years ago Jim Rogers died on the first flying day
of his 360. He called the tower on takeoff with problems and couldn't make
it back to a runway. He was a veteran of 13 forced landings in Nam flying
helo's.
I personally witnessed a fatal crash where it was
attempted by a C172 while developing full power (and inadvertent full
flaps).
Does anyone know of an actual occurance of this ever being
done successfully - with a real power failure?
Mark Ravinski
360 1439 hrs
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