Oroka From Canada, joined Dec 2006, 788 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 years 10 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 3714 times:
Check out this video of a Rhino doing a high alpha pass. Pretty much what you do is pull the nose up, and pour on just enough power to keep you from losing altitude. It is not really flying... cool to see IRL. It is pretty standard to see aerobatic team solos to do it at air shows.
Near the end of your video, you can see the MIG-29 is doing a mild high alpha to keep pace with the AN-32, then he uses his afterburners a bit to get out of the high AoA.
HaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (3 years 10 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 3558 times:
Quoting Alberchico (Thread starter): Had no idea a fast jet like the mig-29 could keep up with a slow turboprop.....
The An-32's cruise speed is almost 300mph... I don't know of any jets that would have a problem maintaing that speed.
And that speed is probably double the MiG's stall speed.
Vikkyvik From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 8220 posts, RR: 28 Reply 4, posted (3 years 10 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 3445 times:
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Quoting Oroka (Reply 1): Check out this video of a Rhino doing a high alpha pass. Pretty much what you do is pull the nose up, and pour on just enough power to keep you from losing altitude. It is not really flying... cool to see IRL. It is pretty standard to see aerobatic team solos to do it at air shows.
That is truly awesome...of course, in large part due to a nifty headwind.
However, it is most definitely really flying. Just utilizing a different source of lift
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