Date: 7/11/2026 10:58:15
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2446311
Subject: re: Spiny's thread of occasional interest
Spiny Norman said:
captain_spalding said:
Hey, SN,You’ve probably already seen this, but…
Yep! Looks like a lot of fun. The inverted thing is normal when going over the top of a mountain like that as it keeps positive G’s on the pilot. Humans can’t take a lot of negative G’s so that’s why in pretty much every dogfight you’ve ever seen they roll into a turn right side up to pull G’s.
A mate in the FAA told me that when they were doing air-to-ground missile runs with things like Zunis and Mighty Mouse, they’d often roll inverted as it made it easier to see if they hit the target or not.