I do remember when switching jobs and transitioning from a DC3 to a Lear 24 for the very first time I had enough ‘horses’.
The take-off took my breath away, and the subsequent climb out to cruise alt of FL430 was pegged at 6,000’ft/min.
Looks a little like this.
I later timed it when light and trying as in excess of 8,000’ ft/min. The two CJ-610’s were the civilian versions of the engines that powered the F-5... and the Lear 24 wasn’t a lot heavier.
She wasn’t a gyro, she was however one elegant, beautiful, and memorable aircraft that I had the greatest pleasure in flying as co-pilot then Captain for a couple of years.
As a CFI in earlier years I worked at a school in Opa Locka called Taildaraggers teaching aerobatics in Citabrias, I did however curb the urge to aerobat the 24, but there was a guy who did, another of my early heroes along with Bob Hoover, Clay Lacy.
And I like the music.
Here’s an inside view.
It’s flying 'on the edge’, in a plane capable of that, and a pilot competent to do that, safely!