Well, Ed, to put this matter to bed, my instructor, waaaaaaay back when, always taught me to throttle back on the back side of a loop... which I didn't do. Remember, this was a very, very large loop and she had a lotta room to dive (a few hundred feet) to pick up a head of steam.

I won't badmouth a plane when it was my own bad judgement.

High altitude + Gravity = very high speed and lotsa stress on the pullout...

Yup, want another one... End of comments on this issue.

Bob