На одном американском форуме нашел, что бывший оператор вооружения (RIO) F-14 пишет что все основные американские истребители могут делать колокол, в частности он c пилотом делал даже с паршивыми двигателями TF-30.
http://www.fighterops.com/forum/show...il-slide/page2
Сообщения №24 и 30,31,33,34...
Вот что он пишет:
I was a RIO, just retired two years ago now I'm a lieing, stinking government contractor :-)
F14/15/16/18 can all do tailslides. Even with the F14's TF30 engines we did it. Key was having the engines at idle to prevent them from stalling and overheating. The F18 had a problem with a pitch "hang up" which was overcome with a switch which allowes the pilot to override the FCS.
Actually, this was a standard part of both the VF-124 and VF-101 RAG syllabus. It was designed to demonstrate to the student pilot 1) the danger of getting yourself parked nose-high in a fight, 2) how long it took to recover and 3) how to recover. However, the RAG had an instructor who had recently received training in the USAF centrifuge and decided he knew more than NATOPS about how to recover from a departure (which is what the airplane does as it falls backward). He ended up changing a perfectly normal departure into an unrecoverable flat spin and lost the plane. Soon afterward they removed the tail slide from the training, I dont' believe they ever put it back in.