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Bump-beaks are back

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Subject: Bump-beaks are back
From: Paul Taylor <>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:01:08 +1100
Nick Payne wrote:
I seem to remember, from reading Biggles in my youth, that there was a WW1 German pilot named Max Immelmann. AFAIK the aerobatic manoeuvre is named after him...

Yes and no.  There are two "Immelmann turns":
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immelmann_turn

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