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On Fri, 30 May 2008 01:20:04 -0500, Michael Ash wrote:

> Joking aside, if your straps were loose enough that you could slump
> forward, that *would* affect your CG which would in turn affect your
> trimmed airspeed.
>
> There's another issue that I just thought of that I don't think anyone has
> mentioned yet, though. Won't you get into a graveyard (bad terminology for
> this scenario, as you're already dead) spiral? After all, if you could
> stay straight and level just by taking your hands off the controls you
> wouldn't need to fear IMC with no gyroscopic instruments. So it seems that
> if you start high enough, the correct answer to this question would be
> whatever the terminal velocity of your fuselage is without its wings. Am I
> off base here?

You fly until gassless, stall, nose down, then descend too rapidly,
striking the ground with the wings ripped off. Works for me.