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Duration: 00:18 minutes Upload Time: 2007-01-24 01:23:18 User: jetdriven :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: On August 7, 1955, Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston stuns the crowd at the Seafair Gold Cup hydroplane race on Lake Washington by barrel (or aileron) rolling the prototype Dash-80, the precursor to the Boeing 707, thus launching the era of the modern commercial jet. Johnston's co-pilot was Boeing test pilot James R. Gannett (1923-2006). (What Johnston did with the airplane was called a barrel-roll but some consider it an aileron roll in which a plane rotates on its long axis, rather than describing a "barrel" loop. However, unlike a conventional aileron, or snap, roll, Johnston maintained positive gravity through the maneuver.) Even Boeing President William Allen is taken by surprise as he escorts potential customers who are seeing the jet for the first time. Flying at more than 400 miles per hour just 400 feet above the water, Johnston commenced a sudden ascent. The jet's swept-back wings spiraled as the 128-foot-long, 160,000 pound plane rolled, flying for a short time upside down. Then, for extra measure, Johnston performed a second barrel-roll. Boeing President Allen asked a guest with a heart problem if he could borrow his pills. The potential jet buyers were duly impressed. By the time Johnston broke the transcontinental speed record in 1957 by flying from Seattle to Baltimore in three hours, 48 minutes, orders for the new 707 were pouring in. |
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| admiralnomad ::: Favorites 2007-12-05 06:07:53 Actually, a barrel roll has a little rudder so you cut a circle in the air. An aileron roll or just "roll" is standard side pressure on the stick. Both of those maneuvers are performed after a very short pull up, which means you don't have to push on the stick at all. Usually, "snap roll" refers to a hard roll with rudder towards the same direction, pushing the tail out violently. __________________________________________________ | |
| ggute ::: Favorites 2007-11-27 18:30:21 My Grandpa can beat up your Grandpa.... __________________________________________________ | |
| zejunkers ::: Favorites 2007-11-27 16:39:21 crazy motherfucker __________________________________________________ | |
| ice9fetus81 ::: Favorites 2007-11-20 02:13:19 wow!can you do that on a 747? __________________________________________________ | |
| 445chris ::: Favorites 2007-11-17 23:08:24 cool,your grandpa must be awsome! __________________________________________________ | |
| cjnewson88 ::: Favorites 2007-09-26 05:30:47 wanna see it* __________________________________________________ | |
| cjnewson88 ::: Favorites 2007-09-26 05:30:06 aw i wanna it do a snap roll too :P __________________________________________________ | |
| jetboat316 ::: Favorites 2007-09-19 01:36:30 dude u do not know what your talking about because in a barrel roll you pull up and turn and then push back down while your still turning then u level out (pitch=up and down yaw=left and right) and he told me himself that it was a BARREL ROLL!!! What you are talking about is a snap role which also has yaw. __________________________________________________ | |
| jetboat316 ::: Favorites 2007-09-19 01:16:01 Thats my grandpa who did the role. and whoever posted this our last name is spelled "JOHNSTON" __________________________________________________ | |
| jetdriven ::: Favorites 2007-09-02 06:12:14 no, airbus have flight envelope protection and wont let you exceed any limitation. __________________________________________________ | |
| georgesturdy ::: Favorites 2007-09-02 06:00:54 could you do this with an airbus 330? __________________________________________________ | |
| ibook133 ::: Favorites 2007-08-16 04:44:28 Yep, that's what i said. __________________________________________________ | |
| jetdriven ::: Favorites 2007-08-15 23:52:38 actually a barrel roll involves rolling the aircraft around the axis of the roll, an aileron roll rolls the aircraft on the axis of the roll. __________________________________________________ | |
| ibook133 ::: Favorites 2007-08-15 02:41:18 Barrel rolls involve only roll, no pitch or yaw, this wasn't a barrel roll, but it was one heck of a sight. __________________________________________________ | |
| lotsotube ::: Favorites 2007-08-15 01:21:04 Any Fixed wing aircaft can be rolled if the pilot has the skill and the guts. A good one knows their limitations. "It is said that there are old pilots and bold pilots; but there are no old bold pilots!" - with some exceptions like Tex Johnson ! __________________________________________________ | |
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