High AOA maneuver videos

[hatter]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone had links to videos of people doing any such things in FSX, like, high alpha or high alpha low airspeed maneuvers in fighter jets. Things like, sustained high AOA flight without altitude change (like when you are flying straight but your nose is pitch up some 30-50 degrees), or things like Pugachev's cobra, a high speed tailslide, or very aggressive climbs where the tail slides a little before you start traveling up.

I've been trying to do some of the (amazing) things demoed in the F-22 certification flight for the COMACC (there is an LMTAS video here: http://www.airshowbuzz.com/videos/view.php?v=b512534b) in the Alphasim F-22A. Fairly simple things like the split S I can pull off fine, and you really don't need thrust vectoring, but the zoom climb at the beginning of the video and the "high AOA loop," among other things, I simply cannot do (I mean, the rate of turn in the video I simply can't get to). For the high AOA loop, the video shows him at ~90 KIAS before he starts. I can get to ~50 KIAS before the plane start to tumble, so I'm fine with that, but he practically does a backflip without changing 100ft of altitude; I just don't have that kind of authority as such low airspeeds! May be the Alpha model doesn't actually simulate thrust vectoring? I mean, the model is very nimble, I can pull much tighter turns than with most other FSX jets I've played with. But, at near stall conditions, when the ship is vertical, maybe, 20-30 KIAS, the plane always does this tail shaking and I lose control. I also cannot (and do not know) how to do high AOA straight flight or a cobra.

I mean, for the straight flight at high AOA, it is theoretically possible since the F-22 does have a thrust-to-weight over 1 (I think its 1.2 or something), so 1/1.2 is .833, sin 60 is .866, so at around ~60 degrees AOA, at max throttle, the component of thrust in the vertical direction will be ~1 (the aircraft does not change altitude), while there is still some 15% throttle in the horizontal component, meaning the aircraft should accelerate as if the throttle were at ~15% in straight and level flight (well, less, since the entire belly is causing more drag).

The cobra I have no idea how to do, particularly doing it without ever changing altitude.

I'm just wondering if I can get some videos of this being done properly. Thanks.