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From: willner%cfa183@harvard.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
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Subject: Re: Soviet F/B
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Date: 11 Apr 90 03:16:26 GMT
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From: willner%cfa183@harvard.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
> The Su-27 is the plane that did the 'Cobra'.  This is what is truly amazing.
> The plane went through not "nearly 90 vertical" as you said, but *BEYOND* 
> vertical.  110 degree angle-of-attack!  The pilot chopped something like
> 200 kts. off his airspeed in about 3 seconds, if I remember right.

An impressive maneuver, as reported in several postings.  But does the
110 or 120 degrees refer to _angle of attack_ or to _pitch angle_?  The
two are not synonymous; I can easily believe the latter, but the former
seems almost impossible.  (And makes the feat all the more spectacular
if correct!)
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