"Kenny P" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote:
>Wasn't that a barrel roll, not an aileron roll?

I videotaped the television program that showed Tex rolling the
Dash 80. The narrator describes it as a barrel roll and Tex
called it a "one "g" roll", whatever that means.
I don't think that either one was correct. The Navy teaches
"barrel rolls" as precision maneuvers with exact headings
achieved at precise attitudes as follows.....up elevator is applied
as in starting a loop.......at the same time, aileron is applied so as
to change heading by 90 degrees at the same time that the airplane
has become inverted......control pressures are maintained and
the airplane completes the "loop" while returning to the original
heading and altitude, ie...rolling around the barrel. This is
obviously not the maneuver that Tex flew. Why should some TV
narrator know what a barrel roll is?? As to Tex's claim to being
a "one "g" maneuver", maybe....if one discounts the pitch-up to
start the maneuver and the recovery from the nose-low attitude
at the conclusion.

Bob Moore
T-28 Barrel Rolls untill I got them right
B-707 Instructor/Check Airman

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