The tailslide is an aerobatic maneuver that starts from level flight with a 1⁄4 loop up into a straight vertical climb until the aircraft loses momentum. When the aircraft's speed reaches zero and it stops climbing, the pilot maintains the aircraft in a stand-still position as long as possible, and as it starts to fall to the ground backward, tail first, the nose drops through the horizon to a vertical down position and the aircraft enters a dive. A 1⁄4 loop recovers to level flight.