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3D = model in stalled attitudeBUZZER
3D is not just flying beyond/in/on a stall. If I'm flying a Shock Flyer straight and level in circles, I'm flying it on stalled wings. A Shock Flyer and other foamies don't have airfolied wings, so the wings are always stalled. So now this brings up an entire new discussion on 3D and stalled wings.
LOL, agreed to some extent but I believe that goes beyond the simplist spirit of the question. In most every single 3D maneuver there is if you chop the power the plane will post haste be in the ground, UNLESS while descending, you can gain enough airspeed to get it to "FLY" again or get it back into a thrust vectored high alpha again, its not going to glide.
There is little or no flight happening in 3D, the plane is maintaining altitude or making a controlled descent almost purely becuase of thrust and steering by propwash and not by forward speed... I cant think of 1 3D maneuver where the plane will ascend if you cut the power.
As for the flat wing foamy thing,,, I get it but the plane is flying, maybe not by technical definition but simply put the plane is flying when its wings level. I will say this you are right,,, you chop the power and that bugger aint gonna glide is it?