"Bert-Jan" wrote in message
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Hans Holbein wrote in news:fkbcqr$ttb$1
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Maple1 schrieb:
http://www.aerophotointernational.com

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Nearly no exhaust visible :-) Tree huggers ;-)

What I wonder:
Is it possible to "flip" with a jet-fighter?
Means stinging vertically in the air, taking all power of the engine at
peak and let it slide backwards until it flips over the elevator.
Or will this suffocate the engine?


Don't know if a flip is possible, but this russian in his MiG comes pretty
close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2VUq...eature=related

I've seen both MiG-29s and SU-27s doing either a "flip" as described above
or a near imitation.

The problem with doing it in an F-16 might not be engine suffocation, but
the flight control system deciding that it knows how to fly a plane much
better than a mere human, and no way will it let the pilot do *that*!


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Dave

not-me should be djw401 and there's no need for any wossname