Almost cost him his job, but the aviation world was never the same.
Source: 60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington | The Seattle Times
(If the attenpt at embedding the video fails, it's there.)
A photo from same source, halfway through one of the death-, industry-, and career-defying stunts:
2 comments:
If a Lancaster bomber could do barrel rolls, why not a 707?
You don't see anyone doing a barrel roll in an Airbus, do you?
Wings'd fall off...
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