Recently, posted:

Never flew the Skipper, but had some time in the Traumahawk. Two
things that I remember besides being horribly underpowered was my
instructor repeatedly warning me about secondary stalls in one and
accelerated stalls at high bank angles. From what I can remember from
his warnings is that the Trauma when it enters the secondary stall,
becomes overly sensitive to having a wing down and when the stall
breaks, it definately wanted to go on it's back and spin. At that
point and when you had an accelerated stall at at large bank angle,
the tail would start to waggle pretty hard and if you were looking at
the correct time, you would catch seeing the fin twist a considerable
amount of distance off of the centerline of the aircraft.

Hmm. Never experienced that kind of thing in the Tomahawk, even in a spin.
Perhaps it was because the one I flew was a later model? I think there's a
lot more myth than truth about these planes.

Neil