Manoeuvre vs Wifferdill - What's the difference?
manoeuvre | wifferdill |
(aviation) An aerobatic manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a series of very tight turns in order to reverse its direction of travel.
*2003 , Dik Alan Daso, Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary , ISBN 157488669X, p. 20.
*:Doolittle executed a grand wifferdill —rapidly climbing to exchange airspeed for altitude—after completing the course, then a perfect landing.