ORIGINAL: otrcman
.....On the first flight, the stall occurred at less than 1/2 aft stick and it was horrific. I'm now down to about half of the original elevator travel With this travel I occasionally get a mild snap at full back stick but sometimes I have to further aggravate things with a bit of rudder to cause a snap......
Dick, it sounds like you're forcing the stall rather than nosing up to maybe 5 degrees nose up then use just enough added elevator to hold it there and just wait for it to loose enough speed on it's own and stall naturally. From all the stalls done this way that I've played with there's not enough energy left in the airplane to snap. At best with some rudder added just pre-stall I'll get a fall off on the pro rudder side into a spiral dive that may or may not develop into a spin depending on the model if I hold the rudder input.
Now if I were to pull the nose up strongly to something like 15 or 20 degrees nose up then yeah, I'll get more funky stuff happening and I may well get a snap if I add in rudder just before it slows down enough to stop flying.