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From: medin@noscvax.UUCP (Ted Medin)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Boeing 707 roll
Message-ID: <1003@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 22:19:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: noscvax.1003
Posted: Mon Jul  8 22:19:42 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:11:37 EDT
References: <2857@decwrl.UUCP> <808@ihnp4.UUCP> <2232@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: medin@cod.UUCP (Ted medin)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Summary: 

In article <2232@ut-sally.UUCP> calvert@ut-sally.UUCP (Ken Calvert) writes:
>cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams):
>>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?
>
>I seem to remember a book about the 707 (sorry, don't remember
>any reference info) describing the flight testing of the 707-80,
>and saying they *looped* the thing.  I guess a loop wouldn't generate
>any forces that category of craft couldn't take, but do they do that
>to all airliners? Like, the 747?
>

Well I remember that when the 707 was first out one of the training or
checkout manuvers was to roll the plane. The reason I remember it is
on a training flight they rolled the plane,threw off some engines
crashed and killed all. The FAA dropped that requirement from the checkout.