September 28, 20214 yr 7 minutes ago, bobcat999 said: Why is this? Which part of the tailplane makes this noise? I think it was the horizontal section being battered by dirty air off the stalling wing and the leverage of the horizontal section being at the top of the tail would cause the whole tail section to bang about. Flight school folklore said a few tomahawk tails had flapped about so much in spins that they had snapped off and that’s why the tomahawk was banned from spinning. I’m not sure if that’s actually true or not but it was enough to scare the cr@p out of us. Edited September 28, 20214 yr by jon b 787 captain. Previously 24 years on 747-400.Technical advisor on PMDG 747 legacy versions QOTS 1 , FS9 and Aerowinx PS1.
September 28, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, jon b said: I think it was the horizontal section being battered by dirty air off the stalling wing and the leverage of the horizontal section being at the top of the tail would cause the whole tail section to bang about. Flight school folklore said a few tomahawk tails had flapped about so much in spins that they had snapped off and that’s why the tomahawk was banned from spinning. I’m not sure if that’s actually true or not but it was enough to scare the cr@p out of us. I had a friend who was an A and P in South Florida, and we were talking about the Tomahawk one day, and he said that several CFI's had told him that if you stalled a Tomahawk a dozen times, every time it did something different in the stall. He attributed that behavior to the T tail warping due to it's poor design, and that is why the stalling behavior was so varied.
September 28, 20214 yr https://disciplesofflight.com/piper-tomahawk-pa-38-aircraft-profile/ https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/features/tomahawk-revisited/ A few good reads
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