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To: Cornpone

When I was a radar weapons controller in the AF many years ago this was addressed and pilots in Air Defense Command were briefed and knew how to do the maneuver. It was called a Slide-By and it was to be performed against waves of Soviet bombers carrying nuclear weapons against the U.S. The technique was to occur after the expenditure of all defensive weapons and involved flying up parallel and in front of the bombers wing. Then you decelerated and pulled up into the forward edge of the bomber’s wing. Obviously it was never practiced!


6 posted on 04/03/2007 4:46:52 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Portcall24

That sounds like how the Brits used to down V-1s, fly under the wing tip and flip it into a dive.


7 posted on 04/03/2007 4:51:00 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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