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inside loop

American  

noun

Aeronautics.
  1. a loop during which the top of the airplane is on the inner side of the curve described by the course of flight.


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Yesterday, for the first time, the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, will have been brought into the inside loop as deputy in more than name only.

From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 2020

I can never tell whether the small inside loop is supposed to go on top, or the big outside end.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2014

W. Merle Nelson of Hollywood, Calif. On the evening of the opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could not get away, but—They flipped up and back in an inside loop; Allan's little craft barrel-rolled from under.

From When the Sleepers Woke by Zagat, Arthur Leo

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