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If it's a death drop, this is one of my faves - you don't tend to think of a flying spin getting great distance: https://youtu.be/u5xR2q0zkEc (1:50)
For any sit spin it's very important to look skaters position in relation to the ice. Better sit spins supposed to be the ones in which skater body (butt) is closer to the ice surface and i must say that todays skaters (as Kostornaya or Vasiljevs presented here) are much better in achieving that kind of sit position.
Current flying sit spins have slow, tentative entries with little height (flight) or height that looks uncontrolled or jerky. Of the older, better spins, Peggy Fleming gets down pretty close to the ice.
To get closer to the ice, the most used position is with total exstention of non skating leg which is more/less paralel to the ice surface. Vasiljevs, Lipnitskaya and Hanuy have a very good variation on the free leg position to keep their butt closer to the ice While their sit spins are good (and aestheticaly pleasing), I think former skaters you are talking about weren't that flexible to achieve closer position to the ice.