On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 9:54:38 PM UTC-4, AS wrote:

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Call it anal but his cockpit was immaculate and he was not at risk getting a hand-full of dirt in his eyes during his performances!


At the other end of the casualness scale, one of my early introductions to glider flight was in a Blanik L-13. The instructor offered to fly a loop. What turned out to be an open end wrench clanked in the fuselage. The very next day L-13s were grounded in the USA, so maybe this was the last L-13 loop flown in the USA.