Usually means: Aerial maneuver, upward loop, reversal.
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  1. Immelmann turn: Merriam-Webster
  2. Immelmann turn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Immelmann turn: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Immelmann turn: Wiktionary
  5. immelmann turn: Dictionary.com
  6. Immelmann turn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Immelmann turn)

noun:  (military, aviation, archaic) A WWI-era fighter pilot maneuver resembling the aerobatic wingover or hammer-head turn, originally developed by Max Immelmann.
noun:  (aviation) The roll-off-the-top aerobatic maneuver, where an aircraft in upright level flight pulls up through one-half of an inside loop until in level inverted flight and then rolls upright, ending up in upright level flight in the opposite direction at a higher altitude; a reverse split S.

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