I recently went down the fighter plane dogfighting rabbit hole. I guess I used to think that dogfighting was just about reaction times and handling the plane. But because of the subtleties of airplane performance parameters and how they interact with energy management, it’s much more tactical than that. And while the pilots are calculating tactics they might be putting in 6+ Gs.
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I recently went down the fighter plane dogfighting rabbit hole. I guess I used to think that dogfighting was just about reaction times and handling the plane. But because of the subtleties of airplane performance parameters and how they interact with energy management, it’s much more tactical than that. And while the pilots are calculating tactics they might be putting in 6+ Gs.
https://youtu.be/kV391POGaV4?si=__YKqs4OdYzt1BgK