LAZY EIGHTS!! MAN LAZY EIGHTS!!
The safest way to learn inverted flight and outside loops is to fly lots of lazy eights. They can be stretched to inverted flight and at the back end of them is an outside loop waiting to happen.
I learned it all in one weekend. I had an SE-5 profile bi-plane and I crashed it about 18 times in that one weekend. It was covered with silkspan and I took some sheets of covering material, 5 minute epoxy, CA, clear dope and thinner and bashed it back together after every crash.
Hi Frank,
I totally agree!!!!!!! If you can fly lazy 8s you can fly inverted and do outside loops in absolutely no time!
I did my first successful outside loop many years ago when the "Stunt Grunt" I wrote about told me to do a lazy 8 and then when I came back towards the top of the second (which is an outside loop anyway)"loop" just go up higher and tuck it under, and I continued on doing two more before I came back out over the top! No they were not close to pretty, but I did them and then it was a piece of cake. (did I make sense saying that?

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And for the inverted part I just kept stretching out the "bottom" of the lazy eight always think that I was doing a lazy 8 so that I just turned it back over the top after I got to doing a full lap.
I am afraid too many guys start out trying to fly close to a rule book maneuver and don't get high enough or pull out high enough. It doesn't matter at all how it looks until you have the feel for how to do it. I made a buddy of mine climb to 45* and give a large amount of up and then more up so that he could do a loop with out pulling out 6" underground. He just couldn't get over wanting to make it look smooth and have a 45* "top". After he did some "P"s he could do a loop and now does them pretty good.
anyway...........