Tim,
During my time with the RAT's in 1971 we did several practices with axial slow rolls in box however, probably due to me, they all degenerated into horizontal bomb-bursts when all four of us got uncomfortable at the same moment. Three on the basis of self preservation and Manx on the basis of the money wasted in nugatory practice. I had the number 2 slot and it certainly felt like an inside/outside slow barrel roll to me however one had but a fleeting peripheral glimpse of anything other than lead for about 20 seconds. I rapidly developed the ability to s**t through the eye of a needle in some of the sessions. I suppose we must be the oldest RAT's around now. Tempus fugit.....!!!!
Trapper 69
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