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Old 5th December 2004 | 16:29
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SR71

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Quite happy not to do that gentlemen although the comment was slightly tongue-in-cheek.

Thinking about it a little more, then, the relevant aerodynamic variables with respect to a barrel-roll shouldn't come anywhere near the edges of the envelope during this manoeuvre though, should they?

And even if we aren't, the aerodynamics isn't sensitive to \phi!

A dangerous assumption, perhaps, but if a 707 can do it, a 737 probably can. The aerodynamics isn't going to be fundamentally different:

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