Did the Typhoon's sophisticated FBW FCS save the day by giving the pilot complete confidence that however hard he pulled the aircraft wouldn't depart?
Or would the ability to pull just a bit harder than the 'hard FCS limit' and accept that there would be a progressive increase in the risk of departure allowed him to pull it round with just a bit more separation from the ground?
Or does Typhoon have a detent on the stick, giving a 'soft' limit?
I was once talking to a well known display pilot of yesteryear, whose speciality included some very low pullouts from manoeuvres - he always aimed to be able to safely recover from a loop with a normal pullout at height X, but at airshows just pulled slightly less hard during the final part of the recovery and gave the crowd the illusion of pulling out low - about X/2.