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From: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Most beautiful aircraft
Message-ID: <172@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 16:50:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 16:50:31 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:46:34 EDT
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Reply-To: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center
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Summary: 

In article <808@ihnp4.UUCP> cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams) writes:
>...
>Story has it that when the 707 was first being demonstrated to airline
>officials and the Air force, Tex Johnson was making a low pass and 
>rolled the thing.  That sold many airlines, right there.  Just a story,
>can any Boeing types verify?
>					Jeff Williams
>					ihnp4!cfiaime

I personally saw the 707 do an aileron roll over the southern end of Lake
Washington.  Since I joined The Boeing Company, I have also seen a few copies
of a photograph taken while the 707 was inverted.  Some versions of the photo
show only the starboard wing and engines, with the lake and shoreline in the
background.  I've even heard some people suggest that the photo was mounted
upside down -- until they look closely at it!

TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
(aka Ted Jardine)  CFI-ASME/I
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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