outside loop
- noun
- Specialized
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loop exterior
- After gaining enough speed, the aircraft performed an outside loop and climbed back to level flight.
Examples
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Mr. Ezra Stiles will now perform the outside loop!
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Hell, even I could do an outside loop in this plane.
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Somebody's gonna do the outside loop any day now.
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Where's the hell is this outside loop of yours?
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I could do an outside loop in this, couldn't I?
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And you were with him in Muncie, when he tried for the outside loop?
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Doin' the outside loop, last week, in St. Louis.
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What's an outside loop?
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The skilled pilot executed an outside loop flawlessly during the airshow.
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During the training session, we practiced the challenging outside loop maneuver repeatedly.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'loop' (a circular flight maneuver) and 'outside' (on the outer side) give a B1 learner a rough sense that this is a type of loop performed on the outer side, so the general idea of a looping maneuver is recoverable. However, the precise sequence (dive → inverted flight → climb) and why it differs from a standard loop are technical and not predictable from the words alone, so prior exposure is needed for the full meaning.
Etymology
Outside loop The phrase outside loop describes a flying trick where a plane makes a full loop but goes around the outside of the circle: the pilot dives, flies upside down, then climbs back to normal flight. Because the plane is on the outer curve, the pilot often feels a force pushing them out of the seat, and that image explains why we call it an outside loop.
