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Couldnt believe my eyeballs...but heres the vid. Its not a full cobra but its very close.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxARRg7_K38&mode=related&search=

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yes very neat. :) The superhornet has always demosntrated tremendous aerodynamic authority, but thats because it has a hude wing area wich also makes it behave like an airbrake. The extra wing area has the primary objective or reducing carrier aproach speed and stores bring back capability. It is thus an economic reason rather than a design feature for combat.

 

Airshow perfomance wise I still give my kudos to the Su-30MKI. Thrust vectoring for rotation in its vertical axis takes the cake for me.

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Guest IguanaKing
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Good find, Hitman!! THAT is what CONTROLLED low-speed flight looks like. :D Excellent demonstration from an aircraft with no TV. I'm thinking the flight crew had some red eyeballs after that demo. There were a couple of negative G maneuvers in there that were...well...YIKES. :D

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Looks like the F-18E isn't as much of a disappointment its initial version, the F-18A was. Glad to see the engineering time paying off like this.

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close... whell.. it resembles it.

very close... no. not one single moment did it have air pressing back into the engine.

 

And if it had, we would see the Mk-14 seat in action about 10 seconds later :/

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Guest IguanaKing
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True, its not quite a Kobra. That's why I said its what CONTROLLED low-speed flight looks like. :P :D

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I think IK is implying that the aircraft is not very controllable during a Cobra - which I think is right, unless of course you have TVC.

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Guest IguanaKing
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Yup, that's exactly what I was implying GG. The point in the Kobra at which the nose falls so quickly...that is a brief moment of flight in which the aircraft is not controllable. It is simply pushed in the right direction, and gravity does the rest until recovery. Its really not much more than a glorified hammer-head stall with a cool name attached to it. :smilewink:

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Just a note here. FBW aircraft made in the west usualy dont allow any form of override, so this is not a true cobra as the aircraft remains always in aerodynamic manueverability controll. Its just a high AOA manuever, albeit the russian birds would sink into a cobra in the same circunstances.

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Guest IguanaKing
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Actually, they do. There is always an FCS disconnect switch in the pit, but its usually not used except in cases of departure recovery. ;)

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