He wanted to demonstrate how strong the 707 was. It was a great aircraft! One lost several feet of its wing on take off one time (from either SFO or Travis AFB, forget which) yet it made it down in one piece. At the risk of starting the Boeing versus "them" war, Boeing makes strong aircraft! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A Whitenight" <rum.runner@juno.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Boeing 707 > Rick, I remember seeing that clip also. He felt it could be done, but > the big brass did not want to see him try it. If my memory was correct, > he caught some flack for that barrel roll, but did not lose his job over > it. > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:09:27 -0500 "Robinson, Rick" > <Rick.Robinson@KNOX.ARMY.MIL> writes: > > I saw a short clip on Discovery the other evening about the > > demonstration of > > the Boeing 707 where the pilot did the slow roll at low level. > > > > Who was the test pilot? > > > > > > rick/kd4gnk > > > >