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[MDyDinanM]

takes a very skilled pilot to do that, especially with an aircraft that size....flying the aircraft that low, applying just enough thrust with the engines, flying on the brink of stalling.

[Q4P]

Very impressive; I fly a few light sports and some of the planes are fidgety in slow flight; this is fantastic.

[vioaltec]

Gotta give it up to those Airbus demonstration pilots, and no they are not CX's pilots.

[Andrew@ET]

pays to have a nice head wind.

[E90SLAM]

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/5303141/

Quoted from one of the replies:

This was from Farnborough in 1994 and it was a particularly unsettled day weather wise with lots of showers around.

The aircraft will have been flown by Airbus test pilots and not by Cathay Pacific. There is no danger in this manoeuvre when flown like this as in normal law the protection is there to protect from any alpha excursions. It is only in Direct law when the protections disappear that there would potentially be a problem. It will also be above VMCA anyway so any engne failure will not be a problem.

This is a perfectly safe manoeuvre air display manoeuvre that will have validated by the flying display committee at Farnborough. Farnborough has some of the strictest regulations as far as display fying is concerned. They won't have been trying anything new.