Thatch weave

Meaning

Noun

• An air combat maneuver, to use when an enemy is chasing one of a pair of alliied aircraft. The chasee weaves back and forth in a path, to lead the chaser into a position, so that the wingmate of the chasee can maneuver in a reciprocal weave, to target the chaser body-on.

Origin

• Thatch + weave. From being named after WWII U.S. naval aviator John S. Thatch, who invented the manoeuvre. From being a interecting flight path, where a pair of fighter airplanes interweave their paths.