"John R Weiss" wrote in message
news:gWEKb.302034$_M.1722533@attbi_s54...
"robert arndt" wrote...

As usual, Keith tries to speak as an authority and is dead wrong as
usual. I have a demonstrator video of a Su-35 stopped in mid-air
(briefly) during a difficult manouver and there are plenty of others
who have seen the Su-37 do it too.

Virtually ANY high-performance airplane can "stand still in air" for a
brief
instant -- just pull it up into the vertical and reduce the power. It
will
eventually stop, just prior to a brief tail slide and eventual "falling
leaf"
maneuver. I've done it many times in the A-4 and A-6, and once in an
F/A-18D.


AKA a stall turn

Keith