Bellerophon,
Many thanks, that goes straight into the archive!
The quote from Brian Calvert's book is from his description of the very first take-off at JFK (20 Oct. 1977, F-WTSB) with Brian Walpole and Jean Franchi at the controls.
I expect the procedure before "Turn" was pretty well the same, after all it had been practised many times already!
Originally Posted by Biggles78
M2, do you know (hypothetically of course) if she was ever rolled?
Nothing hypothetical about it, even if history doesn't relate on how many occasions - at least five or six, and probably several more...
Brian Walpole confirmed it in a TV documentary (extract is on YouTube), and André Turcat confirmed it during a lecture at LBG a few years ago, and again during a lecture last year (40th anniversary). He mentioned that the one thing that really annoyed him about it was that he never had an opportunity to do it himself!
CJ