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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Convair F-106 Delta Dart

Vintage Aviation News

Foust would describe the incident thusly: “The aircraft looked like the pitot tube was stationary with the aircraft rotating around it. Foust did everything in his training to try and recover from the spin, including deploying his plane’s drag chute. Very flat and rotating quite slowly.