I agree in the previous posts made by “italian harvard”, that the manouvre made by the 109 pilot might not be “loss of control”.
However, from my point of view it looks like bad planning or even worse, lack of planning. It looks like he rolls off the top to make an Immelman, but decides that he got to get rid of some altitude and decides to throw in an extra roll on the the way down. Halfway through that roll he realise that the dive is getting to steep and adds a bit of negative G to prevent the dive getting steeper. This makes the roll look really bad… Good thing he made that roll look so bad, if not it could have been a different story….
I usually don’t like to speculate on subjects like this, but I just made an exception….
(Is it the same pilot that rolls the P-51 with the gear down?)
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