Maneuvers
Pilots
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Early on, Allied fighters suffered because they were trained to fight in tight V formations of three fighters each, since it was difficult to keep the formation up in high speed maneuvers and pilots were distracted by trying to fight while maintaining formation.
Source: Call That a Formation? -
Wings To Fly has pilots employing countermeasures and the classic missile-avoidance maneuvers used by real pilots, and their own missiles, to deal with incoming missiles.
Source: High-Speed Missile Dodge - This allowed Boyd to work out an entire series of previously unknown maneuvers (called "zero-gee" maneuvers) to allow pilots to break locks and outturn opponents without losing energy.
Source: Dodge by Braking
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Pilots and Maneuvers. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/maneuvers/pilots
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