This is what I love about Fark: the videos in the sidebar yesterday are the greenlit ones today...



The most amazing thing about this video is that there's all sorts of good clear footage until he does the roll, at which point it starts to look like typical UFO proof...

/obvious

He sounded like James Stewart

Did he press Z or R Twice?

property of that test pilot

I feel a million years older watching that ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzz

Someone should tell Tom Green about this.

high speed low passes (new window) sonic booms & flybys that would hit your head.

not a barrel roll (new window) but i still thought it was neat

So where are all our pilots from yesterday who thought the plane landing in the crosswind was a piece of cake.
Bet you haven't tried that one.

This was on the History Channel a while back.

Pilots had balls back then. Now they just kind of crash on the wilderness.

if only you could SEE the barrel roll

-1 subby

No one has brought in Bob Hoover yet? Precision is everything

i too would be biatchin about poor vid quality but at least the pic of the engines on top of the wing was purty cool

AU_Aviator: No one has brought in Bob Hoover yet? Precision is everything

Holy shiat that was the coolest yet. pouring a glass of tea while rolling a plane!+100

AU_Aviator: No one has brought in Bob Hoover yet? Precision is everything

Oh
My
God

Are you freaking kidding me. That sir wins the nets today.

What exactly is the unlikely part of this video submitter? ...

/Are you a moon conspiracy theorist too?

ignite ice: What exactly is the unlikely part of this video submitter? ...

/Are you a moon conspiracy theorist too?

im not the subby, but i would have to guess that its unlikely someone would see a 707 doing a barrel roll. the same goes for most other articles that come with the unlikely tag. think of it as an "oh i didnt see that one coming" tag

It is a farking Chandelle he did over Lake Washington during the Gold Cup boat races to impress rich guys and air force farks on the ground that the airplane was tough, not a barrel roll, Tex himself says so in the farking video, fark it. A corkscrewlike maneuver that maintains one gee in the cabin all the way around. Bob Hoover could do one and pour water from one pitcher into another while doing it. Not even Chuck Norris can say that.

The 707 was really first designed as an air force tanker for fighters and B-52's with passenger service a secondary consideration. Air Force was needing jet tankers to replace prop powered ones for fueling jet fighters and bombers that could not fly well at the slower prop plane speeds while refueling. The maneuver was to show air force brass that the plane was tough enough for military work, while at the same time impressing airline executives that wanted to know the thing was better built than the British Comets. It was and it did.

Paging a hojillion years ago, this thread would like to have a word with you.

Any Pie Left
I'm pretty sure I just saw that 707 do an aileron roll (just like the other 90 times I've seen this vid), not a chandelle. Chandelles don't go inverted, they are simply a maximum performance 180 degree climbing turn. Bank really won't exceed 30 degrees or so, much less roll through inverted. Besides, this event is famous in aviation lore, and Johnson is the guy known for rolling the 707. There's even some pictures of it (also in the vid). Johnson says, "I decided that I would do a roll to impress some people, so I came across and did a chandelle." However, he then performs a roll after the chandelle as the vid clearly shows (he begins the chandelle, it cuts to some shots of the trim wheels, then goes to the roll). I have done a hojillion chandelles. They don't look like that. I have also done aileron rolls. They do look like that. I don't really see why you are insisting that he did not do a roll despite video evidence in the link and the well established history of this event.

Cameron_Talley: Did he press Z or R Twice?

THIS.

The History Channel had a time-waster feature about great moments in history and they showed a black & white film of the maneuver taken from the ground as it flew over. The pilot's son narrated it. That footage is nice and clear.

Any Pie Left: It is a farking Chandelle he did over Lake Washington during the Gold Cup boat races to impress rich guys and air force farks on the ground that the airplane was tough, not a barrel roll, Tex himself says so in the farking video, fark it. A corkscrewlike maneuver that maintains one gee in the cabin all the way around. Bob Hoover could do one and pour water from one pitcher into another while doing it. Not even Chuck Norris can say that.

The 707 was really first designed as an air force tanker for fighters and B-52's with passenger service a secondary consideration. Air Force was needing jet tankers to replace prop powered ones for fueling jet fighters and bombers that could not fly well at the slower prop plane speeds while refueling. The maneuver was to show air force brass that the plane was tough enough for military work, while at the same time impressing airline executives that wanted to know the thing was better built than the British Comets. It was and it did.

Ohh

yeah but ever do a Chandelle on weeeeed?

AU_Aviator: No one has brought in Bob Hoover yet? Precision is everything

Holy farking crap. That's insane. (Insane good, not insane bad). Amazing.

A far better barrel roll:
http://barrelrole.ytmnd.com/

AU_Aviator: No one has brought in Bob Hoover yet? Precision is everything

I love how they put the typical euro-accent announcer on there, "Flying an airplane takes 'special' skills"


Same video later on is Bob Hoover, "I don't think it takes any special skills".


Definately impressive, and a cool video. I agree with Bob, he is lucky that he got the opportunity to practice such feats.

Do a barrel roll

studebaker hoch: Do a barrel roll

But first, stick it her pooper