wow, one heck of a pilot

[Airpacker]

 

[glassdave]

That Euro is one of the only helicoptors made thats able to do flips like that because of its washplate and rotor design. Pretty bad ass, wonder who the first one to try it was. Big brass ones for sure.

 

[Chris]

This is Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson doing a barrel roll in a 707 over the crowd at the Unlimited Hydro races in Washington.

 

[Wobble]

When I was working offshore in the early eighties we had a pilot that could do 3/4 of a backflip in a 212, he would get it almost inverted then it would fall off to one side.

He was a Vietnam combat pilot and could make that machine do tricks you wouldnt think possible.

Some manager heard about his flying andf fired him, he was back on the job three days later. At that time Brown and Root had a high percentage of ex-military people and they stuck together.

 

[glassdave]

This is Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson doing a barrel roll in a 707 over the crowd at the Unlimited Hydro races in Washington.

"what did you think you were doing? . . . . selling airplanes"



i had thought that was just in front of a group of investors though.

 

[Chris]

Back then the hydro races drew something like a quarter-million people. Made the national news- unusual for those days.