RE: Is it true?
P-51B,
Seems there are two conversations here but to answer your question regarding full scale military there is no term equivalent to what RC guys refer to as 3d flying as there are no military planes that can perform the things we do with our models short of possibley the "cobra manuever" which the Russian SU-27 can perform. This is really a positive wall into a positive waterfall or push-over. Definately off the wing and controlled via vectored thrust. For the most part non of this is practical or desired for military purposes. And at the speeds we typically fly totally unrealistic. Now as far as the full scale Zivko Edge is concerned Kirby Chambliss absolutely performs exactly many of the same 3d manuevers we perform with our models and many consider him and Matt Chapman at the leading edge of aerobatic performance. Given enough power to weight (and one day they will get there) they will perform the same things the models do. If you doubt it, Kirby has done unbelievable Lomcevaks where the plane it literally rotating arounf the lateral axis wingtip to wingtip 5 - 6 times in the same airspace. Both he and Matt have done torque rolls, waterfalls (as good as they can), incredible spinning manuevers, and walls. All of these manuevers utilize vectored thrust for controllability versus flying off the wing. So maybe I really did answer your question as the military term would most likely be "vectored thrust" manuevering.
Mike