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Oh I don't plan on going up with him ever again. It was extremely fun despite the overspeed, but yeah I definitely kissed the ground when I got back. Next time I'll be a little more cautious before I just hop in with someone.

Ok, well looking after looking at that photo I'd say it was more like 15 knots over. We weren't inverted during the overspeed, it was after he failed to maintain the inversion with enough forward pressure on the stick, ditched, and ended up putting us into a nose low attitude while turning...

40-50 knots, I believe red line was 180? maybe 280, I don't remember.

Well, from the back I didn't have a good view of the accelerometer, plus I was pretty glued on that airspeed. I wouldn't be surprised if there were excessive positive G's pulled as the pilot corrected the situation by pitching up pretty hard. I don't even recall if the throttle was all the way...

I went on an aerobatics flight with a buddy recently, and noticed that in an attempt to go inverted he accidentally exceeded the VNE speed by quite a bit (and to correct the situation, he pitched up which was even scarier considering the likely substantial load on the wings). I've been...