AERONAUTICS: Loop Record

Mme. Adrienne Boland, French aviatrix, established a world’s record for women, looping the loop 98 times within a period of 58 minutes—a wonderful feat, though men have done better. Lieut. Maynard, famed American flying parson (now dead), made more than 400 successive loops, and Paul Fronval, French pilot, is said to have surpassed even this.

The loop is by no means a difficult stunt. Tail spins and Immelman turns are far more difficult. An integral part of military acrobatics, and serving many a pilot in the tricky maneuvers of an air fight, such stunts have scarcely a place in civil aviation. Perhaps their sole object is to teach a pilot how to get out of an involuntary stunt.