The Dash-80 was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston instead performed a barrel roll to show off the jet airliner. The next day, Allen summoned...

2007年3月31日 · Tex Johnson, the Boeing Test Pilot rolls the Prototype aircraft!He gets a Bollocking, but gets away with it!

1 天前 · Dark Footage. 707 Passenger Jet Survives Upside Down Barrel Roll. Posted: March 27, 2025 | Last updated: March 27, 2025. In the 1950s, the American Boeing aircraft company wanted to pioneer ...

2021年10月27日 · According to the Seattle Times, he executed the barrel roll at a speed of 490 miles/hr (789 km/hr), flying the airplane upside down. As if doing it once was not enough, the ace pilot repeated the maneuver in case anyone had missed it. In an interview, Johnston spoke about his decision to perform the barrel roll twice, stating,

2007年1月23日 · 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...

2016年5月1日 · The 707 prototype was Boeing’s first commercial jet airliner and the future of the company was at stake. Instead of doing just a fly-over as foreseen, Johnston wanted to show off by doing something that hadn’t been done before, he barrel-rolled the airplane.

2015年8月7日 · Friday is 60 years since Tex Johnston’s famous barrel-roll of the Boeing 707 prototype over Lake Washington. It was a promotional stunt that in today’s dollars used a $144 million investment by...

2013年12月14日 · The Dash-80 was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston instead performed a barrel roll to show off the jet airliner. The next day, Allen summoned...

波音707是美國 波音公司在1950年代研發的首款四引擎噴射式 單走道客機，由波音367-80設計發展，載客量為140至189人，航程為2,500至5,750海里（4,630至10,650公里） [3] 。 707是波音的首款噴射機，採用後掠翼、引擎吊艙等新式設計。

Boeing 707 Dash -80 N70700 Completes a Barrel Roll During Early Flight Testing to show the Aircrafts Capabilities