| Hi Les,
>I dont think he was at anytime not in control of his aircraft.... I think he knew exactly how close he wanted to come to the surface...
I've seen a MiG-29 doing a similar manoeuvre at an airshow - it was obvious from the small corrections he made on the way down and the angle-of-attack reserve he left that he was flying it consciously all the way. (And if tarmac were liquid, we'd have seen some spray!)
The Rafale video is too jerky to see these little corrections, but the "final descent" is rather shallow with little curvature, so I suspect you are right that he had planned this manoeuvre to give exactly this result!
Regards,
Henning (HoHun) | 
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