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outside loop

American  

noun

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


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His i newest trick he called "crossing the T"— ', an outside loop, a normal loop, topped oft with a half-loop and half-roll.

From Time Magazine Archive

He learned about weightlessness by flying in high-speed airplanes as they curved over the top half of an outside loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plane immediately went into an outside loop.

From Time Magazine Archive

I walk the outside loop of the water park, looking for the other girls.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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