This happened back in about 1977 a year before I purchased S1C N95R.
Jack Poage was FBO @ Aldino, Churchville, Md. He was helping me install a child's seat in my C120. Meyer Gutman took off in his S1S to practice his airshow routine. As he was over departure end of runway @ about 100' he did a snaproll and Jack Poage went ballistic....(I didn't hear his conversation with Meyer but I never saw him do it again).
Meyer's first(flying) Pitts was S1C N95R and while I never saw his routine in it I'm told the snap on takeoff was his SOP. Jack told me that he considered the 360 degree snap(by Meyer anyway) at 100' a 100%** maneuver. He did NOT share that opinion of the maneuver if done in a S1S and said if he saw Meyer do it again, he could find another place to base his airplane.
Jack was w/o an airplane at the time but had flown with Meyer and Ned Surrant(sp?) before and later in Mason Dixon Airshows. Jack also had a zero waver.
**I suspect nothing is 100%. Jack was killed during an airshow in his S2B in 1989? doing a maneuver he had done 100's of times
Opinions?.
Jack
Jack Poage was FBO @ Aldino, Churchville, Md. He was helping me install a child's seat in my C120. Meyer Gutman took off in his S1S to practice his airshow routine. As he was over departure end of runway @ about 100' he did a snaproll and Jack Poage went ballistic....(I didn't hear his conversation with Meyer but I never saw him do it again).
Meyer's first(flying) Pitts was S1C N95R and while I never saw his routine in it I'm told the snap on takeoff was his SOP. Jack told me that he considered the 360 degree snap(by Meyer anyway) at 100' a 100%** maneuver. He did NOT share that opinion of the maneuver if done in a S1S and said if he saw Meyer do it again, he could find another place to base his airplane.
Jack was w/o an airplane at the time but had flown with Meyer and Ned Surrant(sp?) before and later in Mason Dixon Airshows. Jack also had a zero waver.
**I suspect nothing is 100%. Jack was killed during an airshow in his S2B in 1989? doing a maneuver he had done 100's of times
Opinions?.
Jack
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