I remember at Farnborough many years ago seeing the late Gordon Corps throwing the original FBW A-300 around and what he was doing was highly impressive in terms of high angles climb and steep turns
I also remember an early type Airbus (poss the A340?) almost coming a cropper at Farnborough some years back - curved approach with a very late flare. The pilot in question had to really fight to keep it together on touch down. Can't be a***ed searching YouPrune to see if there's a video.