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It looks to me like the narration in the "Dogfights" video was a little loose with the scissors terminology. Right after using the term, the action depicts a turn overshoot entirely in the horizontal plane. The scissors as taught in the RAG squadron, IIRC, was as much a vertical maneuver as it was a turning one. In the days of Phantom vs MiG, the tighter turning aircraft would pull around the circumference of the combat "egg" while the higher energy bird would pull up, roll over the top of the egg, and drop in on the opponent's tail.Just watched "Dog fights-long odds" again. The maneuver the Zeros were doing, scissor or rolling scissors, was it similar to the Thach weave?