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I changed "inferior" to "slower-turning" in the first paragraph. Throughout the entire Pacific Campaign all US fighters (and, if memory serves, all other common fighters in service anywhere else in the world) had poorer turning characteristics than the A6M Zero-sen, which was a dogfighter's fighter. Still, they were all more durable, had better dive and climb characteristics (P-40 Warhawk), had better performance at altitude (F4U Corsair), were simply faster (P-38 Lightning)... classifying aircraft as generally "inferior" is only effective when comparing apples to apples; doctrine usually plays a greater role. There's a reason why modern F-14, F-18, F-15, etc. pilots try to keep fights high and fast; if they get into even a MiG-21's flight envelope they'll lose because the "inferior" aircraft performs better at lower altitudes. -- 165.134.195.72 06:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I added a second illustration. As a newcomer to dogfighting manoeuvres, I was a little lost as to how such a move could benefit an evading pilot. The existing illustration with four fighters (and no attacker) didn't really help. It was only when I looked at one of the references that I understood the move. All it took was a good diagram...
-- Discboy 15:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
In the "Speed Racer" movie, during the first race, Speed performs a Thach Weave with his brother Rex Racer's 'ghost car' through the criss-crossing section of the track. The extreme banking makes the cars' paths just like aircraft flying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody ( talk • contribs) 06:01, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Alexander Pokryshkin engaged seemingly same maneuvre, named "scissors" around 1942 on Russian-German front. However the main intention was to chain those "scissors: into "snakeys", allowing fast MiG-3 interceptors be used to convoy slow Sukhoi Su-2 bombers without outrunning them. Escorting on low power made interceptors themselves been prey to sudden attacks and protective value of scissors (both for neighbours' support and allowed high speed) was noted. On fighters missions, however, Pokryshkin, tending to vertical maneuvres rather than dogfights, that was not of much use. 4th picture might show wingman protecting his leader or perhaps example of scissors used for defense. http://www.23ag.ru/html/bloknot_1.html 212.176.32.20 ( talk) 14:20, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
if enemy pilots encounter the Thach Weave and it's effective, wouldn't they also adopt it themselves? 68.173.49.156 ( talk) 01:48, 9 February 2015 (UTC)