Don writes:

"At this point, does it matter whether he had an AOA or not?"

Not to Chuck, but I doubt that he would want anyone to follow his footsteps.

I used to do zoom passes too, from time time, but then I installed Jim's AOA and found out how close I was coming to stall.  In truth I was a couple of tenths of a G from a smoking hole. It was quite sobering because you just don't expect to stall above 150 Kts. It is not part of your mental "things I have to worry about at cruise speed" list.