There was a -real- near-accident several years ago when a pilot of a
commercial flight saved his aircraft by executing either a barrel
roll or a vertical (Immelman?) loop. It was smaller than a 747, but
I remember being impressed at the capabilities of the plane.
I also saw a news report from the Paris Air Show. Showed some
commercial jets nearly standing on their tails as they took off.
Impressive!
--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn_at_ix.netcom.nospam.com
>I believe it was the 707.
>
>On Friday, October 5, 2001, at 11:57 AM, Bill davis newton wrote:
>
>>
>> I think I recall an anecdote that the test pilot of the 747 barrel-
>> rolled the prototype in front of a bunch of airline or company execs =
>at
>> a demo. Or maybe it was another 7x7 plane. Either way, if
>> true.....whoa!
>>
>> - Bill
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net>
>> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:58:10 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] airports and Newts
>>
>>>
>>> on 10/5/01 8:30 PM, Lou Forlini at lforlini_at_sspi-software.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> This brings to mind a news story I read a few months ago. Seems
>>>> that a disgruntled (and I mean *really* disgruntled) FedEx employee
>>>> stowed away on one of their cargo jets, and appeared in mid-flight
>>> to
>>>> attack the pilot and co-pilot with a screwdriver. The pilot
>>> disabled
>>>> him by flying the plane *upside down*, throwing him to the roof. I
>>>> can only imagine one of those huge cargo jets being thrown
>>> completely
>>>> over on its back, I had no idea they could even do that.
>>>
>>> Glad none of my fragile packages was on the plane. :-)
>>> --
>>> Jon Glass
>>> Krakow, Poland
>>> <jonglass_at_usa.net>
>>>
>>
>>
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