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Bret
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Cool pic!
Don't know? But whatever it is it's looks like a big bird. Fixed wings with what looks to be a second inboard engine pod in the upper left corner of the picture. Still theres probably not a lot of big aircraft capable of flying inverted like (least ways none that you'd probably want to) other than the B47 Stratojet. But that can't be one as the outboard engine pod is all wrong.
That said I'm stumpped!?!?!
Don't know? But whatever it is it's looks like a big bird. Fixed wings with what looks to be a second inboard engine pod in the upper left corner of the picture. Still theres probably not a lot of big aircraft capable of flying inverted like (least ways none that you'd probably want to) other than the B47 Stratojet. But that can't be one as the outboard engine pod is all wrong.
That said I'm stumpped!?!?!
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The first barrel roll done by a 727 over Detroit in the early 70's? Unintentional, of course.
TR6oldtimer
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See it here...
https://www.aviationexplorer.com/707_roll_video.htm
https://www.aviationexplorer.com/707_roll_video.htm
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And we have a winner!
The Boeing 367-80 ("Dash 80") was the prototype for the 707, and the pilot admitted he just wanted to show the plane's capabilities while flying over the Gold Cup hydroplane races held on Lake Washington in Seattle, in August 1955. The audience loved it; Boeing didn't.
Later, Tex said he was called into the Boeing office, where he met one of the head honchos, who told him something like "Tex, you know it can be done. Now we know it can be done. Let's just not do it again."
The Smithsonian's story
T.
The Boeing 367-80 ("Dash 80") was the prototype for the 707, and the pilot admitted he just wanted to show the plane's capabilities while flying over the Gold Cup hydroplane races held on Lake Washington in Seattle, in August 1955. The audience loved it; Boeing didn't.
Later, Tex said he was called into the Boeing office, where he met one of the head honchos, who told him something like "Tex, you know it can be done. Now we know it can be done. Let's just not do it again."
The Smithsonian's story
T.
