Hero pilot 'back-flipped' his fighter jet at 250ft to avoid a crash!
Geront makes a sensible point. We all know what is meant by a 'bunting manouevre' but the term is also used for a specific aerobatic figure - see here for definition of an 'English bunt' https://www.iac.org/legacy/aerobatic-figures
the Chinook can "glide" safely to earth in the event of a double engine failure
Yep, my transponder eats my battery, so I can't have it on all the time in my glider. When the battery voltage goes down; so does the transponder.
PowerFlarm warns of transponder targets. You would see a shrinking circle about your position. I've seen errors of +- 200' in transponder returns so without visual acquisition, you can't tell whether to push or pull.
When time allows, glider pilots may do a shallow S-turn to make themselves apparent to oncoming traffic, maybe steeper to pick up a non-directional alert.
PowerFlarm warns of transponder targets. You would see a shrinking circle about your position. I've seen errors of +- 200' in transponder returns so without visual acquisition, you can't tell whether to push or pull.
When time allows, glider pilots may do a shallow S-turn to make themselves apparent to oncoming traffic, maybe steeper to pick up a non-directional alert.
The Times get it right at last
Today's Times has a correction "Our graphic and description of an RAF Tornado GR4 avoiding collision with a glider were incorrect....The pilot did not complete a full loop:he manoeuvred at a very high speed under the glider, and then corrected his flight path"
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Yep, my transponder eats my battery, so I can't have it on all the time in my glider.
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you assume that mere civilian readers of this report will accept the "reported facts" and not question the physical improbability accredited to the Tornado crew
- although some are suspecting enough to take another look somewhere else 
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Sorry Mate, but even you should know that the Millennium Falcon is only stressed to -3g. And that's only obtainable "ex-atmospheric." Please check fact before posting.
Sorry Mate, but even you should know that the Millennium Falcon is only stressed to -3g. And that's only obtainable "ex-atmospheric." Please check fact before posting.
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I believe that I saw Captain Dart, Slim and Husky perform this exact manouevre in their Galasphere 347 as part of the peace-keeping force, the United Galactic Organization around 1963. I must admit its taken me until reading this thread to doubt the credibility of Space Patrol.
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Memory fades, but once upon a time, wasn't there a Rule of the Air that when two aircraft are approaching head - on, each should alter course to the right?
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-28G? Well not quite ignoring the laws of physics, but how did the jet pilot remain concious, and how come the aircraft didn't break up?
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