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Up until recent memory, Spencer Suderman had fortune smile upon him repeatedly as he bested world records sought for sustained inverted spin events. But a failed attempt a few weeks ago, due to oxygen issues, has been joined by an even more unwelcome problem when Suderman lost his prop, inflight, and was forced to execute an emergency landing in the notoriously difficult LA area at Whiteman Airport. Mind you, most Pitts Specials, even a modified S-1C like Suderman’s, are not the world greatest gliders... especially when the front of the cowling has messed up the aerodynamics as well as the aircraft's center of gravity. uAvionix, designer and manufacturer of the skyBeacon an