*Martha just defined the maneuver, explained how to do it, and threw some history and French lesson in. Aviation Queen*.

I went through 8 vids and learned nothing, but this short one, even with clever comments got right to the essential points and made it understandable for a technical pilot. Highly recommended.

Wonderful. I watched multiple videos to help understand this manoeuvre with the beautiful name, and learned nothing. Then I found Martha. Isn’t she great? The manoeuvre is both simpler and riskier than I expected. The idea of banking/turning and climbing at maximum at the same time seems like a stall waiting to happen to a rookie like me. But I guess when you have a trigger-happy Fritz on your tail you will do anything to survive!

Brings me back to my youth and first commercial students; thx ma

When I was a teenager I was lucky enough to fly a Grob Tutor with an RAF pilot. It was meant to be a standard experience day to show us the basics of flying. I got in and said to the Pilot that I had already been learning to fly and rather than him teaching me basic stuff, I'd be happy just to sit there and let him fly some cool things. He rewarded me by letting me do some loops and rolls but I asked him about a trick I had heard of, I said it was called something like a chandelier. He said 'Oh, a Chandelle. That'll be too advanced to teach you but I can do it'. He then went on to perform what he said was a chandelle, but it didn't seem anything like what was described in this video.. It did involve almost stalling the aircraft and changing direction, but we were also completely upside down at one point. It seemed like it started more like a loop and then when you are at the very top (and upside down) you let the plane nearly stall while spinning it round. Are there perhaps variations of this maneuver or did he show me something completely different?

Lol at "Most of us aren't engaged in dogfights on a regular basis." ... Only feels like that when I'm driving my car in bad traffic.

Hell yeah! I friggin love me some chandy's

More video like this please!!

It's a steep climbing turn but like everything else the French have to give it a very fancy name. The Immelmann turn (the first half of a loop and a half roll off the top) was the more common way of achieving the same thing (without losing sight of your attacker because the upper wing block your view.)

I really like her shirt

Thanks for the lesson... but no chandelle?

most of us are not engaged in a dogfight on a regular basis :D hahaha

Martha forgot to add full throttle rolling into the 30 degree bank

In WW1 it was a 3g pull.