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EHM-0361 Karsten:
I have been thinking about that myself. I'm not sure about the answer to the first one. I think the answer to last question is yes. It wouldn't surprise me if there where a pilot somewhere insane enought to do it.

EHM-1001 Robert:
You think it was possible with a real airliner plane?

It is impossible! The main thing in the manouver is the variable thrust turner. It rotates the jet blast like the Harrier JumpJet do. As I know the end segment of engine (the thrust guide) can be turned upward and downward about +/-30 degrees. When the plane do the Cobra, the turner rotates the thrust downward, to help keep the plane on the air, and slow it down. Then turns upward to roll it back horizontal and accelerate again.

EHM-0962 Zhen Yi:
Robert beat me to the answer and said all that i had to say :P

EHM-1539 Pierre:
Haha, yeah the Su27 will always kick the F16's ass in manoeuvering, vectorial thrust is the answer ! The cobra is of no use in actual combat though.
(a looong time ago I was an online squadron leader on www.checksix-fr.com under Flanker 2. With Lock On you can compare east block and west block fighters... Very interresting, one side lots of avionics, on the other old school simplicity, but it works. Oh and try landing a su27 on a carrier at night, the HUD horizon is.... argh, it's the opposite of what we are all used to use)

Ok, just look at this, experimental NASA plane to study vectorial thrust, look at the mangoose manoeuver ;D
Looks like stalling isn't a problem anymore, this one can do anything even stalled :o
 
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/X-31/index.html

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