looping-the-loop

Updated: May 10, 2025

In every way they sought to discourage that wild reaching after public favour and notoriety that led aviators to attempt reckless feats, and often sacrifice their lives in a foolish effort to astonish an audience. No one ever heard of either of the Wright brothers "looping-the-loop," doing a "demon glide," or in any other fashion reducing the profession of aviation to the level of a circus.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - Aircraft and Submarines: The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day: Uses of War's Newest Weapons

Finally, we came to Dunkirk, and there enjoyed uninterrupted repose after our long ride in the biting weather. Next morning I was up early, and before I had breakfast I watched a seaplane turning and twisting, riding first tail downward and then head downward, dropping a thousand feet, and then righting itself, and outdoing the looping-the-loop idea.

Mordaunt Hall - Some Naval Yarns