Usually planes are able to fly when air moves across the wings which generates lift. But how do fighter jets able to maintain lift while performing aerobatic maneuvers?

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Usually planes are able to fly when air moves across the wings which generates lift. But how do fighter jets able to maintain lift while performing aerobatic maneuvers?

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Earlier in my career, my boss and I would fly into Edwards AFB in his 4 seater plane, I believe it was a piper cherokee. We would land on a secondary runway that was unmanned, but we would have to talk to the main tower to land and take off. A lot of times we would have to wait for the military planes to take off and sometimes they would just go straight up. I would look over and see my boss drooling at the power. He found out what you had to request to go straight up, I believe it’s a request for unlimited takeoff or something like that. I kept joking with him that he should request an unlimited takeoff in his Piper! One slow day he did, guys in the tower had a good laugh.