Ahhh, stepped into a hornet's nest here? The thought came to me after
seeing the rather lengthy
tales in the beginning of this thread. I am against yanking the stick
forward and then back, hard or fully. So the thought of mostly rudder
work, like entering or coming out of a spin or half a spin came to me.
Naturally one would not teach that, but on the other hand, some of you
might have a "Hammerhead " demonstrated to you, or take some Acro
instruction? Edward aparently understood what I was thinking. He is
right, one would come out of that half spin recovery too fast which
would not work on a tight airfield.

What Frank saw after the loop and before the landing with that Swallow
might have been a hammerhead rather than a Chandelle, which would have
taken too long. Spin entry is faster. Of course, the Swallow is a very
light aircraft and can do those manouvers much slower than the glass
slippers.

In the late 50s a former Luftwaffe Pilot named Karlie Marsen did Acro
work out of a winch launch regularly at Flugplatzfests same what Frank
saw,.. in a Lo 100.......He was a skier too!

Soarski