Re: [SG/DS] Fighter manoeuvres

There's another manoever that the super-manoeverable aircraft
(experimental
US/European and the Russian SU-27/30/33/35/etc series) demonstrate - but
I
don't know what the name is.  It's got to do with pointing the nose of
the
aircraft in a different direction than the direction of flight, without
changing the actual flight vector.  So, the aircraft can point it's
nose,
say, 15 deg vertically and 5 deg to the port, to get a better firing
position for missiles or guns, but not change the actual direction
travelled.

At 05:03 PM 11/18/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Robertson, Brendan wrote:
> 
>> I'm after some valid dogfight maneuvers to include and was wondering
if
>> anyone could help with suggestions.
>> I currently have:
>> VIFF (effectively air brakes)
>> Tight turns
>> Evade
>> 
>> Any other suggestions?
>
>Vertical Rolling Scissors
>Barrel Roll
>Vertical Break (tight turn in vertical)
>"Split S" (ie roll inverted and do a half loop down)
>Sideslip
>Unload
>"Retard Defence"
>
>With hi-technology, add
>
>Parthian ( reverse direction so now flying (and shooting) backwards, a
>sort of super-viff, slows you down something chronic)
>
>Sidestep ( use control surfaces and vectored thrust to suddenly
displace
>horizontally, while pointing in the same direction)
>
>Note: both these maneouvres have been demonstrated by experimental
>designs in the early 90's. 
>
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