Foxmoth, where do you find 3 seconds before pulling back?
My recollection of the “stirring mayonnaise” graphic that it was about 7 or 8 seconds before a consistent pull back. Before that, the predominant movements were in roll, the pitch-up/pitch down inputs were alternating, and some here speculated that they were partly if not wholly inadvertent – the results of a right hand movement being to tend to pull back with full left aileron and forward with full right. [see:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/46839...ml#post6819601 ]
I thought it was only after the significant left/right movements ceased – thought by some to indicate that the roll had been brought under control – that Bonin did his sustained pull-up.