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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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She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was first to span the continent in a single day, first Army pilot to do the hazardous outside loop, first to try an experimental kind of blind flight.

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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