On 2007-06-20 13:25:10 -0400, John Godwin said:

Dudley Henriques wrote in
news:2007062011293016807-dhenriques@rcncom:

Would that be a horizontal scissors or a vertical rolling
scissors? :-) Dudley Henriques

Vertical Rolling Scissors ..now THAT'S excitement. :-)

Could be :-)) Problem with a VRS is that if it works you just MIGHT
shake a close in shooter by forcing a high angle off overshoot. If it
doesn't work, you might just solve the shooter's tracking solution :-)
Probably the best on film example of a vertical rolling scissors I've
seen when NOT flying, was an in-flight shot taken during the filming of
"The Battle of Britain".

The shot was made from the nose of the B25 film plane being used for
the movie, and the two pilots involved if I remember rightmight have
been Lefty Gardner and Loyd Nolan of the Confederate Air Force who went
over and assisted in the air to air filming.

In one of the aerial dogfight scenes,a Spitfire being attacked by an
Me109 executes a perfect underneath vertical rolling scissors by
dragging the in close ME down and outside as he rolls and pulls in
tighter than the ME, forcing the ME to overshoot him completely in the
vertical plane.
A gorgeous textbook maneuver. Shown many times at Top Gun and AF
Fighter Lead In Schools
Dudley Henriques