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3 unusual facts about barrel roll


Barrel roll

He was flying a glider owned by John Joseph Montgomery during an exhibition show, which was lifted by balloon and then released.

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Concorde was rolled multiple times by her test pilots, including Jean Franchi and Brian Walpole.

Roland Falk

During the 1955 Farnborough Airshow he barrel-rolled a Vulcan at the top of the post-take-off climb, although safe it was a spectacular manoeuvre in an aircraft weighing 69 tons and with a 99-foot wingspan.


Crescent wing

The Victor had good handling and excellent performance, along with favourable slow speed flight characteristics and has been described as an agile aircraft, atypical for a large bomber aircraft; in 1958, a Victor had performed several loops and a barrel roll during practices for a display flight at Farnborough Airshow.


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