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Captain Sam "Slammer" Richardson, former F-14 pilot, fighter squadron commanding officer, and Top Gun instructor, tells the story about the flat spin his Tomcat go into during a training sortie off the California coast. Slammer goes into great detail about the airplane's aeromechanic tendencies and proper NATOPS boldface procedures. He also describes what happened after his instructor pilot and he ejected once they realized the Tomcat wasn't going to pull out of the spin.