I did a little bit, I never really got the hang of it.
Had a .049 in a Piper 140.
You didn't like it? Or you got dizzy when you flew?
I was taught to practice getting dizzy. You hold your arm out full length and stick your thumb up. Stare at your thumbnail, and spin in a circle about the same speed and direction as you would flying a plane. Once you START to get dizzy, sit down. After you feel fine, do it again, over and over. After you can do that for about five minutes, you should be ready to fly.
I just flew around in flat circles when I first started, which was pretty boring. Then I did some wing overs, then loops, then I tried flying inverted. Pretty soon I was flying figure eights and square loops, outside loops, all kinds of stuff. And those .049's can do all that, even fly inverted all day long.
After a couple of us guys got real good at flying, we got in the circle together. We have to be careful about getting your lines too tangled up. One of you has to do a couple of loops to straighten the lines out. We flew those solid balsa wood planes and went after each others planes dogfighting. 15 minute epoxy works wonders fixing those planes.
We always had a blast flying those summers. Brings back some good memories.