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Tex Johnston: The Pilot that Rolled a Boeing 707
The grainy video shows something that, to today’s eyes, looks impossible. Surely, it looked just as impossible then. A red-and-white Boeing 707 airliner approaching the crowd and then commencing to do a roll, something that even many pilots would find incomprehensible. But on Aug. 7, 1955, in front of an audience, that’s just what Alvin M. “Tex” Johnston did. Born in 1914 to farmers, Johnston turned his eyes to the sky at an early age. When he was only 11 years old, Johnston received his very… (www.msn.com) Más...
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When ever Boeing reveals new aircraft, the pilots are told to never do a roll.
........... unless it is of course 'rolling' the FAA for certification of aircraft for stockholder and executive greed ............... just sayin'.
Where's the video?
