Re: Re: Cool!
Originally posted by Flanker_man
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Other a/c ‘may’ have done a cobra – but what we now call a Cobra was first performed to the western public in a MiG-29 at a Paris Airshow (I forget which year ?).
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Ken
1989
the Cobra manœuvre was officially shown for the first time to the public at the Salon du Bourget 89 in a Su-27
I found some figures here, dunno if it’s 100% correct :
“The Su-27 made its formal introduction to the West at the 1989 Paris Air Show, when Viktor Pugachev ran the aircraft through the now-famous “Cobra” maneuver, lifting the fighter to an angle of attack of over 90 degrees to its line of flight, causing abrupt deceleration until it nosed back down. The Cobra maneuver was apparently invented by another Sukhoi test pilot, Valerii Menitsky, as a flight-test exercise, but it became associated with Pugachev, it seems with his encouragement, and is also often called the “Pugachev maneuver” or “Pugachev Cobra”. “
http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avsu27.html
maybe some fellow Russian members here could tell us more on Valerii Menitsky…
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