Spiny Norman said:

captain_spalding said:

Spiny Norman said:

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.

Not surprised. Cockpits can be difficult to see out of.

Haven’t seen too many, but i think the worst one i have seen is the MiG-17, which i got a sit in.

You sit in this really deep metal tub, with a little bubble over the top of you, and you can see nothing downwards, very little to the sides, not much forwards, and it’s hard to see upwards.

How people took those thing into fights baffles me. How they landed them baffles me!