flare2000x Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 Wow. And this first flew 22 years before the Flanker, the plane which many thought was the first to perform the cobra. flare [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] DCS:WWII 1944 BACKER --- Fw. 190D-9 --- Bf. 109K-4 --- P-51D --- Spitfire! Specs: Intel i7-3770 @3.9 Ghz - NVidia GTX 960 - 8GB RAM - OCz Vertex 240GB SSD - Toshiba 1TB HDD - Corsair CX 600M Power Supply - MSI B75MA-P45 MoBo - Defender Cobra M5
RagnarDa Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 It should be added that this is a pretty risky maneuver because they could very easily lose control of the plane when doing this. There's another video somewhere on Youtube that you see that the plane spins around when trying a cobra (it is a very short section of a clip, I'm guessing the cameraman stopped filming when he saw his friend lost control of the airplane). Pilot accounts I've read also state that when flying the Draken you have 1% of your focus on tactics/weapon employment and situational awareness and the rest 99% on concentration on just trying to fly the airplane. DCS AJS37 HACKERMAN There will always be bugs. If everything is a priority nothing is.
Brisse Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 If I recall correctly, the Draken can only do the cobra at high altitude, right?
RagnarDa Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 If I recall correctly, the Draken can only do the cobra at high altitude, right? My guess is you need the altitude to have time to recover any unintentional spin. DCS AJS37 HACKERMAN There will always be bugs. If everything is a priority nothing is.
NRG-Vampire Posted July 20, 2014 Posted July 20, 2014 My guess is you need the altitude to have time to recover any unintentional spin. yes, i think so, (specifically im sure about that) but flankers and fulcrums do the cobra on a more stable way, so those dont need that "safety altitude"
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