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Old 21st Jun 2017, 13:52
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George K Lee
 
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I will stand to be corrected, but in a fighter it's a rolling maneuver at high alpha. It looks like a helo pedal turn when the flightpath vector is steeply downhill and airspeed is low, so the descent rate is hard to perceive.

The Su-35S display has a somewhat similar maneuver, but with more T/W to play with and better low-speed aerodynamics, the pilot can stop the turn and fly out. It seems that the F-35 has to stop, pitch down and dive to recover speed.
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