The T6 Texan or Harvard is a heavy piece of metal with a fair amount of attitude. Its strong body language suggests that if you fly like a “Wussy” you better go fly something else.
Aerobatics started before the First World War. Some of it by mistake, such as Wilfred Parkes first successful, albeit unintentional recovery from a spin in 1912; and some of it gutsy adventurism, for example the brave Russian Nesterov