“Post-stall maneuvering” gives a plane excellent maneuverability—but the equipment needed to boost it comes with tradeoffs, as all advanced aircraft features do.

ACM training is not about memorizing a catalog of maneuvers, but ingraining a mindset within the pilot: managing chaos, anticipating geometry, and making split-second decisions under high-G pressure.

The next advance in training for strike and fighter pilots will be a combined flight simulator and centrifuge, adding the feel of realistic high g-forces to the cues from a wide-field-of-view visual ...