Thanks Stijn, I see what you mean. I was confused as to why the P-63 was still descending below 500 ft. I wrongly thought he was unknowingly losing altitude due to the hard left turn. If the video presentation was correct, the pilot would've faced some consequences if he made the radio call (forgot the words) to declare out of the circuit and just climb out. Just sad with varying speeds with same headings and altitudes. Why not make the circuit like a dog bone to separate speeds rather than half a dog bone. But then you'd have conflict in closing, but at different altitudes.
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Originally Posted by svandamme
The idea mentioned in my the video in my previous post is that to do the turn inside the bombers, the faster fighters did a high yo yo
Which is a classic maneuver to turn inside a slower fighter and stay or get behind him
So that's why he climbed. Then on the return leg, he dived to catch up with his formation , the P51's ahead.
The main problem with that, was that he was still in a bank, and one cannot ever overtake inside a turn cause it is impossible to look down, to the outside of the turn, it creates a huge blind spot in the direction of flight (because G makes plane push out of the bend)
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I had to search on the Yo-Yo maneuver. I'm often wrong so any corrections are appreciated.
-Bob
