Originally Posted by galaxy flyer

wizepilot

I don't know if he was pulling your chain, but he was certainly foolhardy and not very wise about flying jet aircraft. First, anything close to a catastrophic decompression raises the real chance of the structure being damaged--not a situation you would want to be rolling inverting and pulling. Maintain the airspeed at the time of failure and go down slowly. At least one B707 wa lost when it had an explosive decompression due to a bomb and the crew did the classic "high dive" and ripped the tail off.

Second, doing aerobatics like that in a plane not tested or cert'd for them is asking for HUGE trouble. Too many incidents to mention here--several Hawkers have been rolled with nasty structural damage, for one.

Third, I suspect a Lear pointed straight down would not have enough drag not to get into a serious overspeed or get seriously damaged. Overspeeds in Lears are proven killers--loads of examples there.

GF