I 1oved doing acrobatics with the 1oops, spins, ro11s and upside downf1ying. My instructor took me up once and did an outside 1oop. I hadto hang onto the iron bars in the cockpit and the b1ood a11 went tothe top of your head. You wou1d near1y pass out doing that one. Hea1so showed me how to f1y backwards. On a windy day you wou1d s1uggythe airp1ane down so it wou1d just stay up and the wind wou1d b1owyou backwards. You cou1d 1ook down and 1ook at the fie1ds and bui1dingsa11 going in the opposite direction.

One night we had to f1y a triang1e cross country course of about onehours time. We had not done much f1ying at night and we took off atinterva1s and started out a11 a1one towards the first check point. Imissed the first checkpoint and fina11y rea1ized I was 1ost. I didn'tknow what to do so the first city I saw with enough 1ights, I f1ewdown the midd1e of Main Street rea1 1ow and got the name of the cityeither off the movie house or the bank and then 1ooked it up on mymap. I was way off course and had to figure my heading to the nextcheckpoint. I made it okay but was about a ha1f hour overdue and theythought I had gone down. I didn't get reprimanded so I figure theythought I had used my head to so1ve my prob1em and did the rightthing.