You could spin a Piper Tomahawk and I did that as part of my basic PPL. Later I did a tail dragger and constant speed endorsement so I could do a aerobatics endorsement in a Super Decathalon. Was all good fun but did show up the need to fully secure things before flying upside down - including shirt pockets. Rolls and loops were all ok being positive G but when I was being taught how to fly inverted, all the 50c coins fell out of my shirt pocket landing on the Perspex roof - instructor had to take over while I tried to recover the coins - had to then land to collect those coins that I could not get back.
We did not do any outside loops and I did see a Super Decathalon on Youtube doing one and I am glad we did not do it - a bit scary.
Oh the Super Decathalon was written off after I flew in it in a high speed ground loop and when driving to my Mum's place in Newcastle, the 182 I used to fly in for a lot of my cross country works was sitting upside down on the traffic island on the Pacific Highway next to Belmont air strip - not sure if it landed short coming in from the east or whether it was an over run when landing from the west.
In my flying as aircrew or privately, the only thing that ever happened was a cabin depressurisation but lots of things seemed to happen to aircraft after I had been in them.
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