An aggressor squadron screams across the Baltic sky, closing in on the Swedish Saab 35 Draken at Mach 1.7. By all conventional wisdom, the brand new Swedish fighter should have been trapped—outgunned, outmaneuvered, and seconds away from being another Cold War casualty.But this is no ordinary aircraft.Suddenly, the Draken’s nose pitches up violently, almost perpendicular to its flight path. The fighter seems to hang suspended in midair as its forward momentum evaporates, defying the laws of physics. It was a move that was supposed to be impossible. Any pursuing jet would become a target as the Draken ripped backwards on their tail.The Swedes called it kort parad—”short parry.” It would later become known worldwide as the mythical Cobra Maneuver, and for now in 1963, it exists nowhere else on Earth. To pull it off required one of the riskiest and most dangerous designs ever implemented in an aircraft. The Saab 35 Draken would either kill or be killed by the “SUPER STALL.