What Do You Do When You Get Out of Control?

In the 1950s fighter pilots and highly trained pilots in the U.S. Air Force were attempting to fly at altitudes that had never ever been explored before. And what would happen is that the ordinary laws of aerodynamics did not apply when they got way out there. These pilots, their planes would skid into a flat spin like a cereal bowl and a wax form like a counter and then they'd start tumbling. They weren't even spinning and diving, but they'd just be tumbling through space and over end. The more they tried to maneuver the controls, the worse their situation. When it changed was inadvertent as often happens.