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Originally Posted by entropy
It is meant for airshows, merely to show the capability of the airframe and engines. Then it is also a product of not using fly-by-wire, as the computers would not allow the pilots to drive the airframe to the fullest. The maneauver has no combat use, and no one claims it has.
Please watch your words. Masturbation, even patriotic one, is best done in private. You are an insult to real American patriots.
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When I was in my mid teens Im went to an airshow that had an SU-27 do a cobra manuver and we all ood and ahhed and the Russians (standing in formation in front of a massive Anotov Cargo plane were just beaming, basking in the American publics adoration.
The the USAF got its turn and an F-16 came over the feild pulled straight up went to burner and went through the floor of the clouds in the blink of an eye. After the 16 got a done an F-15 pointed almsot straight up walked down runway with almost no forward speed as fighters go.
The announcer couldn't resist getting a rib in on the Russians and pointed out that US fighters don't need to do a cobra becuase they don't run out of power and can break the sound barrier in the vertical.
The Su-27 was nice, so was the F-15 and the B-1B that was roped off, and if you could ge tpast the ear splitting roar the Harrier was awesome, but that Russian cargo plane was an ego crusher. The airshow was at Payne Feild in Everret Washington home of the 747 and seeing our pride and joy go from jumbo to merely big hurt.