Cuban Eight

The looping Eight is a maneuver in aerobatics. It was for the first time in 1936 unintentionally demonstrated by the pilot Leonard James Povey, when he failed an avalanche. On the question of the judges he named the character spontaneously Cuban Eight. ( Although Povey was American, but he lived in Cuba from 1934 to 1938 and built in the local Air Force on behalf of Batista. ).

The figure consists of two sub - loops and two half rolls. The aircraft is from the horizontal flight in a 5/8-Looping upwards over until it flies 45 degrees down on the back opposite to the original direction of flight. Now, a half roll followed by a further partial loop on the height of the first until the plane 45 degrees downward flies in original direction of flight in the supine position. Now comes another half roll.