| This starts as a
loop, but after looping over the top and at an
angle of 45 degrees nose down whilst inverted
there is a half roll to return upright and
then we ease out of the dive. It’s probably
the most common maneouvre at air shows and is
especially effective for showing off pitch
rate, roll rate and the resulting dive and
recovery. We start at high speed. |
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| As with the
straight loop, full power and pulling 3+ G’s
we get up into the climb quickly. Note: Pulling
back hard on the stick in all these maneouvres
will simply result in excess drag, stress on the
airframe, and no particular climb advantage.
"Nurse" the stick by EASING back. Try
to imagine the increased forces on the stick as
you pull more than 2 G's. Smoothly go over the
top before the speed bleeds off. |
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| Five eighths of
the loop is now completed - actually I’ve
gone a bit past the 45 degree angle here - oops.
Instead of pulling back and continuing the loop I
centralise the pitch control then full aileron
turn (in this case right aileron), conteracting
any yaw with opposite rudder. |
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| ....Now back on
track - the whole roll is not shown here but
please imagine the aircraft is rolling 180
degrees. Still pointing down 45 degrees (again in
this illustration the pitch is a little more than
45 degrees). |
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| Now upright and
level wings. All that remains is to recover from
the dive. |
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