ORIGINAL: MustangAce
Plane and simple.......post stall aerobatics.
Does that make IMAC maneuvers like snap roll, hammer head or 2 turn spin 3D moves? They all happen with wing stalled. [&:]
Also, it does not take a lot of power to do harriers (not super HA), elevators, walls, blenders, KE Spins & slow descending flat spins and these are surely 3D moves. So I could theoretically have a plane capable of 3D with out the power to hover [&:]
3D- simply having enough thrust to do sustained maneuvers at up to and including vertically oriented maneuvers. (Dick Hanson)post#35
I think I like Dicks definition.
A GOOD 3D design is measured by it's performance BETWEEN the unstalled, stable flying state and the completely stalled, stationary flying state. (Shogun)
This makes a lot of sense to me.