I would like some help on this one. I have long been wondering what the BM maneouvres "mean," how they are performed, and what their real names are. So these are my results after some research. There are certainly errors, and there are some maneouvres I couldn't make sense of, or of dubious interpretation.

Can any of the experts out there provide some help?


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Non-restricted manoeuvres

Stall: 1

Straight and level flight: 2, 3, 4, 5

Banked turn: 9, 10, 11, 14, 20, 21, 23, 24
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banked_turn

Slip-turn or forward slip(?): 6/7, 12/13, 18/19, 25/26
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-turn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_slip#Forward-slip
http://www.langleyflyingschool.com/Pages/Slipping.html
The fact that the Albatros D.III only has 12 and 13 maneouvres at speed 3 makes me think that it is probably just a slip-turn, that is, performed only with the rudder. Thoughts? Same thing goes with the 25 and 26, that are the only speed-4 turns.

Sideslip: 8, 16, 17
http://www.langleyflyingschool.com/Pages/Slipping.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_slip#Sideslip
Why are there no speed-3 sideslip manoeuvres? A (non-restricted) speed-3 equivalent of the 8 and 17, that is.

Skidding turn: 15, 22
http://fouryears.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/image065-300x218.gif


Restricted manoeuvres

Barrel (canopy) roll: 34/35
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_roll#Canopy_roll

Split S or Immelman: 27, 29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immelmann_turn

Stall turn: 28
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_Turn

I have no idea: 31, 36

I have no idea: 30, 32, 33


Manoeuvre name by BM code

1 Stall
2 Straight and level flight
3 Straight and level flight
4 Straight and level flight
5 Straight and level flight

6/7 Forward slip or slip-turn?
8 Sideslip
9 Banked turn
10 Banked turn (losing altitude with speed 1)
11 Banked turn (losing altitude with speed 1)

12/13 Forward slip or slip-turn?
14 Banked turn
15 Skidding turn
16 Slipping turn
17 Sideslip

18/19 Forward slip or slip-turn?
20 Banked turn
21 Banked turn
22 Skidding turn
23 Banked turn
24 Banked turn

25/26 Forward slip or slip-turn?

27 Immelman
28 Stall turn
29 Immelman
30 ???
31 ???
32 ???
33 ???
34/35 Barrel (canopy) roll
36 ???

Insteresting article! For me, I would like to know the Chinese translation for it :P

P.