Thanks, hope that stuff helps with the learning curve.
Actually I intentionally caused it to spin with the rudder, if I had done nothing, it would have just fallen flat facing a constant heading. You might notice, that when I connected the shot in the spin I reversed the spin rotation from left to right. The measure of control I had was the compass heading my nose would point at, with the use of rudder.
To recover from a flat stall in a P38, you need to remove 1 of 2 contributing factors, either fully retract flaps, or cut throttle. Then nose down for forward momentum. The combination of those 2 forces leave you stuck falling flat.
I might also point out I made a choice to not recover from the flat stall until after the next merge. If I had nosed down to recover, my rate of decent would have put me under (in front of) the la7. Instead my rate of decent was much slower than what the la7 was pulling in a split-s and we met at the same altitude.
Oh, and yea, if you notice just before the film ends I cut the drop tank. Was too busy trying to make shots/avoid shots up to that point, and I didnt spot the threat from the la7 early enough to mess with it before hand.
