Gee and roll rate trim and recovery
Thanks, Rudder, it's what I thot. Our simple FBW could be trimmed for a gee ( plus 3.5 gee and about minus 1 gee), which several guys did to have a zero gee hands-off stick for gaining energy. Roll was likewise, and a hands-off normally was a zero roll rate command, but we could manually trim to about 150 deg/sec roll rate command ( or something like that).
I still don't agree with PJ that I couldn't recover in 10,000 or 15,000 feet. Give me a chance in the sim and I'll do my best. The jet had plenty of dynamic pressure, just a bit below normal approach speed. With gear up and some added power, reducing the AoA to zero should have resulted in a significant increase in speed and then a careful, gentle pull back up to level. Screw the mach/overspeed stuff. The jet is tough, and seems very stable.