Kickstop

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Kickstop is a flight maneuver in which a fighter makes a hard 90º turn and then holds its course in the hopes of forcing a pursuer to overshoot it. If this succeeds then the maneuver is followed by a 180º spin to return fire. It was listed as a standard maneuver in Taggart's Tactics.