"Danny Deger" wrote in message
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Has anyone else seen the video of the 707 doing a barrel roll. The test
pilot on his own did this maneuver when Boeing was showing off the plane
to
potential customers. He knew the plane could do this maneuver, but knew
he
would not be given permission to do it from management. He did it once,
turned around and did it again.

I heard the story at the museum in DC where they have that very 707 on
display.

The company execs didn't know he was going to do the roll either and
afterwards one of the execs told a manager to fire the test pilot. The
manager said that he couldn't do that because that particular pilot was the
only one who knew how to fly the plane at the time.

BDS