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This guy knows how to fly a plane!
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It's in my opinion the nicest looking fighter jet ever produced. Especialy in those colours. 👍
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Those Russians are crazy. Give them a little bit of vodka, a multi-million dollar war plane and they can do anything! 
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Heh, yeah, I realized that my post was kinda negative. Definitely incredible piloting there, and engineering on the plane itself. So much maneuverability despite almost zero airspeed and so much time spent in non-aerdynamic flight...Flerbizky
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I think that may be the SU-37. Maybe not the 37, but one of the "SU" jets. That's part of what's called the "Cobra maneuver", if I remember right. They can basically pull up really fast, and almost stop in midair. This would help a lot in a dogfight, if a plane is after you, as you could pull up, and the other plane would fly past you. My dad also said they can use the thrusters to basically burn up planes flying under them.
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You know, you're right - I just watched the vid again, and it's definitely an Su-37 Super Flanker, and it does indeed use thrust vectoring. No wonder he can do all that radical zero-airspeed stuff. It's the hopped up version of the Su-35 Flanker, which derived from the Su-27. My mistake!PERFECT BALANCE
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I've done that stuff with fighter jets in Microsoft Flight Sim 2004, a lot of stalling, low speed/low engine thrust and a BUNCH of pulling up on the joystick...balance is the key word.
BALANCE!
But to do it in a real life jet with real-life G-forces and flight conditions...wow
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But to do it in a real life jet with real-life G-forces and flight conditions...wow
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Bob Hoover is absolutely da MAN. I've seen him do that feathered-prop routine live, several times. When he kills the engines at very low altitude, he only gets a few maneuvers in. One time I saw him switch off from about 2000 feet up, and he got in a loop, a hammer head, a chandelle, and a 4-point roll before landing and coasting to a stop directly in front of the announcers' stand.
The amazing thing is, it's a bone-stock business turboprop from the '70s called the Rockwell Shrike.
The amazing thing is, it's a bone-stock business turboprop from the '70s called the Rockwell Shrike.
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Bob Hoover executing a full roll w/ one hand & pouring a glass of ice tea backhanded w/ 'tother is 
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I wonder if that Bob Hoover will adopt me as his grand kid. He'd be the coolest grandpa ever!
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hoo...boy!
By the way, the SU-37, I believe, is the Naval SU-30 and has standard thrust nacelles, but has the canard foreplanes. the SU-30MKI, an Indian variant, dese have thrust vectoring. you don't need the vectoring, though, to do the Cobra in a Sukhoi 27/30/whatever other numbers.
The Russian Jets are AMAZING. give my MiG-29 Western radar and avionics, paint it in RAM, and let me shoot down whatever I want: short of an F-22, that is.
By the way, the SU-37, I believe, is the Naval SU-30 and has standard thrust nacelles, but has the canard foreplanes. the SU-30MKI, an Indian variant, dese have thrust vectoring. you don't need the vectoring, though, to do the Cobra in a Sukhoi 27/30/whatever other numbers.
The Russian Jets are AMAZING. give my MiG-29 Western radar and avionics, paint it in RAM, and let me shoot down whatever I want: short of an F-22, that is.
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A full roll while pulling positive Gs on the airframe the whole time... yeah, he's a true giant among aviators. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple times, briefly, though of course there's not the slightest reason he would have remembered it. I used to be quite an airshow brat when I was younger.DeLoreanBrownBob Hoover executing a full roll w/ one hand & pouring a glass of ice tea backhanded w/ 'tother is
He used to do a routine in a yellow P-51, too. I was watching him practice one day for a show the following day. He came in to land, and only the starboard main gear came down. He cycled the gear a few times, and the port side came down but the starboard went up - they got out of cycle somehow. So he made a few passes with one wheel down, banging the airplane up and down off of the runway to try to make the other side pop down; no luck.
So finally he came in and made a perfect landing on one maingear and the tailwheel, just as if it were a 3-point. He held the plane level until it was almost stalled, and then let it settle onto the port wingtip. Didn't even bend the prop - he flew the show the next day with an olive drab wingtip and outer aileron panel borrowed overnight from another guy's Mustang.
On the original subject - yeah, the Su27 will do the cobra maneuver without thrust vectoring, but I think a lot of the nil-speed spins and flops this guy was doing would rely on more than just the canards. I could be wrong though! Either way, it's seriously cool.
