Mike Lombardi, Boeing corporate historian, says the entire company was involved in selling the 707. But the stunt didn’t hurt, he says. “I think the legend of the barrel roll has grown bigger ...

In the 1950s, the American Boeing aircraft company wanted to pioneer civilian jet aircraft with its innovative Boeing 707. As part of ... one but two consecutive barrel rolls.

What Johnston had done was "unauthorized and unthinkable," Sam Howe Verhovek would write in his book Jet Age: The Comet, the 707 ... Boeing Chairman Frank Schrontz offered a CEO's eulogy. The ...

Since Fall 2020, he has been restoring the cockpit of a Boeing 707—his favorite airplane ... often told the story of the barrel roll. When Johnston told him what he planned to do, Gannett ...

So Tex Johnson explained himself to Boeing president Bill Allen after performing an impromptu barrel-roll in the 707 prototype before a Seattle gathering of IATA bigwigs. Equally impressive ...

Its special trick, as Boeing Test Pilot Russel H ... for which it was never intended—a barrel roll. Under Baum’s practiced hand, the huge 707 went through its full roll till finally it ...

Boeingcelebrated the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the 707 jetliner onThursday ... its pilots famously threw thehuge Dash 80 into a barrel roll in front of many industry witnesses.

The Boeing 707 revolutionised air travel and kicked the ... In August 1955, Tex Johnston, Boeing’s chief test pilot, barrel-rolled the precious aircraft over Lake Washington.

1954: The Boeing ... roll in the Dash 80 apparently helped the marketing effort of the new airplane. Pan American World Airways and American Airlines both placed orders for the new 707 by the ...