NASA Spin and stall testing a Piper PA-38 Tomahawk

[Bergerie1]

Many pilots may be interested in thise NASA video of spin and stall tests during which the test pilot gives a running commentary:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_GpVAm3tM

[arketip]

Brings back great memories.
Did plenty of spins with the Tomahawk during my training years ago, left, right, left and right, my max was 7 turns before applying recovery.
The Tomahawk was great for that.

[exlatccatsa]

N2584N was our machine at Curzon Flight, Redbird, Dallas during my PPL in 1981. Her engine stopped after a couple of turns in the spin and took more than a little bit of height to get it started again. I often wondered if this had anything to do with her final flight years later.
https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20110815X62149&key=1

[BigEndBob]

The spin from 7:00 is interesting in this video. Notice how he talks convincing himself it's coming out.
Seems to get the height readout confused.
My last PA38 spin was like that, having done many. I wonder if many of the spin accidents due to the high rotation on certain recoveries. Certainly gave me the feeling it didn't want to come out. I applied pro spin and then applied standard recovery again and it came out of the spin.
Scarry.

[Jan Olieslagers]

Wasn't the PA-38 specifically conceived for stall/spin training, after some early T-tail jetliners (BAC 1-11? DC-9?) suffered crashes following so-called deep stall?