What do you think ?
Personally i hope he did !
Footage of Vulcan performing barrel roll investigated - BBC News
Personally i hope he did !
Footage of Vulcan performing barrel roll investigated - BBC News
investigation into Vulcan barrel roll !
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Certainly looks like he did! Mighty impressive too...
The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
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Footage looks well dodgy.
Looks like a bad edit job and about as conclusive as alien autopsy.
But you're damn right roll that thing!
Roll it all night long. Because you can.
Barrel roll is a safe maneuver as long as it don't pull G. Boeing 707 was rolled and so was Concorde.
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I think the first one looks more real than the second, but it could just be the angles !
Health and safety freaks will be wringing their hands with worry
If its true, very well done Sir !
Health and safety freaks will be wringing their hands with worry
If its true, very well done Sir !
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Looked like about 7/8ths of a roll, with the 'dive exit' steeper, and much later, than normally done. Great - and stuff H&S !!!
Its not a H&S concern... at least not to anyone who actually knows aviation.
As long as it wasn't done over populated areas, and there was no prohibition in the flight manual, there shouldn't be any problems. The CAA restrictions on these manoeuvres was during air displays, so as long as it was during a transit flight, again no problems.
As long as it wasn't done over populated areas, and there was no prohibition in the flight manual, there shouldn't be any problems. The CAA restrictions on these manoeuvres was during air displays, so as long as it was during a transit flight, again no problems.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
But you know that there will be an outcry by those that have no idea what they're talking about and then social media will pick it up and the masses will be adding their unwanted "expert" opinions based on the zero knowledge they possess...
Yeah, but they won't be health and safety 'experts'.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
So if it did do a barrel roll, good on'un and what's the worst the authorities could do………………ground them…………………sponsors have already done that!!!!!!!!
Its more what they would do to the pilot. And knowing the UK bureaucratic BS, they would do everything they could just to prove a point.
GregP
Major
Promote him?
Make him eat Caviar? Lobster?
Make him do it AGAIN just to be sure?
I can think of others ... Twits!
Make him eat Caviar? Lobster?
Make him do it AGAIN just to be sure?
I can think of others ... Twits!
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I apologise for using the term "health and safety", it was meant a a catch all term aimed at then men in grey sat at desks spoiling everyone's fun and enjoyment.
I will stick to the model section from now on endlessly posting "nice one"messeges
I will stick to the model section from now on endlessly posting "nice one"messeges
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
I noticed that one of the reports was worded in such a way that it appeared to state that the Vulcan had it's sponsorship and support withdrawn as a result of the alleged barrel roll - something which could go some way to aid the 'do gooders' if the enquiry goes deeper. Prats !
Balljoint
Senior Airman
Back when I knew a United pilot who rolled a 727 on a dead head leg. The flight crew sort of knew something occurred but weren't sure what –and weren't at all alarmed. Properly done apparently a very docile maneuver.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
They looked like a sequence of 'stills' when I watched them, but not sure if that was just slow 'streaming' on my net connection. Certainly didn't look totally 'natural' though.
fubar57
General
Same for me Terry. I was doing some fixing on my comp. and thought it was lag. I do find it odd that in this day and age where everyone is carrying something to capture "video", that that is the only documentation of the event I can find. I think and hope, someone has pulled a fast one on the Beeb and others.
Geo
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
I think someone probably has.
The 'normal' display takes the aircraft 'half way' into a roll, before recovering via a dive and leveling out, as shown in my sequence below, taken at Little Gransden last year.
Depending on the angle the 'stills' (or edited video) were taken, it would be quite easy to make this look like a roll.
EDIT: Yeuk! The pics haven't posted very well - lots of 'noise' compared to my originals !
The 'normal' display takes the aircraft 'half way' into a roll, before recovering via a dive and leveling out, as shown in my sequence below, taken at Little Gransden last year.
Depending on the angle the 'stills' (or edited video) were taken, it would be quite easy to make this look like a roll.
EDIT: Yeuk! The pics haven't posted very well - lots of 'noise' compared to my originals !
