Gosh, I always thought that PA 28s exploded into smitheroons if they exceeded 30 degrees of bank or ten degrees nose up, but you always learn stuff on pprune. Anyway, that sounds sort of wing-overy, imcaeros, and accords with Mr Farley's simple definition above, so have you won your wager?
SSD, it is true that you can get a good view on your back (in a variety of situations, or so I am told), but (concentrating on the flying for a minute) you might miss the evil dude whilst rolling (a MK 1 Spitfire with fabric ailerons might not roll as quickly as a Yak), and anyway he would be putting some distance on whilst you do this, which is why the 109s used a pushover and hard dive to evade pursuing Spitfires. They must have been fed up when the later models with improved carburation came along and bunted straight after them.
Last edited by FNG; 4th March 2003 at 16:15.