Horses for Courses
This spin thread has been going round and round for some time !
I hope my post does not bring this thread to a natural close. My record in that respect is not good!
Now the tomahawk sounds interesting. The twisting tail saga sounds vaguely familiar - I recall the Vampire T11 twisted it's tails and you could see them doing so in the rearview mirror. As the machine proved difficult to recover, either through old age or mishandling, many stories circulated about jettisoning the canopy as a certain cure for this particular problem.
The Chipmunk needed 'strakes' to cure something to do with the spin but the exact explanation has escaped me for the moment.
The Jet Provost was spun solo by students in the 60's until a few - perhaps 2 - mishandled the recovery and took the Martin Baker option.
The Jet Provost MK5 had an interesting VERY high speed rotation if you applied half rudder in the recovery. Nystagmus was something to see ! If that is the name for leaving your eyeballs several degrees behind the nose of the aircraft.
The Slingsby had a similiar very high rotation in the spin if you left power on after a spin off manoeuvre. It would stop pointing vertically down for a couple of seconds just to fool you then spin like nothing on earth about 6000 ft per minute rate of descent.
The 152 was a poor excuse for a spin.
The Zlin is ok but always 'lumpy' in recovery.
A 'story' - I went to Florida this girl told me, and the American who taught me spinning said I should learn to be able to recover with the aircraft 'pointing' in a certain direction because, and I quote, 'Ya never know when you might spin on 'finals' and ya would want to be pointing at the runway' ! !
Most pilots 'hate' spinning because it is the one manouevre where a control input actually does nothing for the first few seconds except to make things worst ! i.e. the spin speeds up - conservation of mass as per the ice skater - I believe.
Get checked out on you particular steed. If you don't understand B over A ratio the you shouldn't be spinning.