[pabianice]

Cessna is about to be sold by Textron. Obama's Depression may end any meaningful general aviation in the US, the country that invented the airplane.

[b4its2late]

Sounds like a ground catcher.

[Texan Tory]

“Deliveries were to begin later this year, but Bob Stangarone, Cessna’s vice president of corporate communications, told the Wichita Eagle, that schedule will have to be adjusted.”

LOL, yeah, might want to adjust the delivery schedule just a little.

[Freeport]

Folks the testing involved here is spin testing, not to be confused with what most of you are used to as spiral flight such as that conducted at airshows.

Spiral flight maintains control surface function of an aircraft. Otherwise there would be a LOT of dead stunt pilots out there.

Spin testing purposely defeats control surface function through low speed and high angles of flight path; the aircraft is almost literally falling out of the sky.

Spin testing is an exceedingly dangerous business so don't go out and do it. You'll most likely end up dead and as an ex-crash investigator, you'll just get guys like me shaking their heads at your shear stupidity.

All aircraft will have a flight environment that can be excited where the aircraft is non-recoverable; including aircraft like the Long-Ez which are “Spin Resistant”.

Spin testing purposely tries to find these lurking monsters and document them so that the allowable flight envelope can be identified.

As can be seen by this incident, it can be very hard to pin down and is very unforgiving once entry is made.

[AmericanHunter]

Since Cessna decided to build this plane in China, I lost interest immediately.