Sounds like mostly torque, Hawk. Your 180 doesn't have the high power combined with a really large prop diameter to make the effects as pronounced as with, say, the P-51.
Back when '51's were cheap...at one time you could buy one for around 10 grand...a lot of people killed themselves with torque rolls. It happened when low and slow, say on landing approach. The pilot aborts and tries to go around. He forgets he's in a Mustang and porks the power. That geared V-12 pours a ton of pure torque into the prop and at low speed, he has insuficient aeleron to counter it. In a heartbeat, he's upside down at 200 ft. This seems to have cost us most of the surviving '51's and now we're down to a handfull and they're worth millions.
There used to be a guy named Doug Shultz who flew a Mustang named Crazy Horse out of Nashua, NH. In the early 80's, you could fly dual for an hour with him for around $1,000. He'd literally train you all the way to checking out in it, but of course, no solo in that aircraft. I'll always be sorry I never came up with the money. He later re-named it Double Trouble, I think, and was leasing it out to the Air Force test pilot school so they could broaden their skills. One of his primary agendas was to teach the danger of torque rolls.
My understanding, is that this and many other nasty charictoristics were engineered out in the Bearcat, which of course, we don't fly because it didn't see combat in WW2. Pity....It's the only other plane that might beat your beloved Tempest.
Simpelest way to think of all these effects is to remember in most WW2 fighters, the prop is so large in relation to the wing span that it just doesn't compare with civilian aircraft, no matter what the power.
One other thing...In any prop plane that is single engine, or doesn't have counter rotating props like the '38 or the Senica, Just pulling the stick back and going to a higher AOA will give you some yaw due to the descending blade going to a higher AOA in the realitive wind. If you don't center the ball, the stall snaps you into a departure.
Hope this sheds some light.
Swoop
