Victory roll?
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Gainesy, there is definitely a future for your writing gags for Radio Four comedy...!
Whereas nearly wiping yourself out flying the silly manoeuvre and thereby causing involuntary defecation would be........
Ta da.....
.....a Toilet Roll
I thang yo'
Ta da.....
.....a Toilet Roll
I thang yo'
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I think the tradition was started by German pilots in the First World War. They called it...
...The Kaiser Roll
British pilots then adopted and perfected it. In fact they made it such a smooth maneuver they renamed it The Buttered Roll
I should have stopped shouldn't I?
...The Kaiser Roll
British pilots then adopted and perfected it. In fact they made it such a smooth maneuver they renamed it The Buttered Roll
I should have stopped shouldn't I?
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And if anyone is really herring a bad day and undercooks it, you might need a rollmop...
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BEagle.
From the first line of your last post I think we have been at the beer again haven't we, I bet you have a big barrel of it.
There you go.
Barrel Roll.
Yes, I know, I should get out more
From the first line of your last post I think we have been at the beer again haven't we, I bet you have a big barrel of it.
There you go.
Barrel Roll.
Yes, I know, I should get out more
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Allo Allo! it vas of cuss, I shall say zis only vonce, ze Flick Roll, after zat master of torture Herr Flick of zer Gestapo...
Good moaning
Good moaning
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Dredging for it... is Straight and Level known as a Bacon roll...?
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treadigraph.
I don't know if the bacon roll is correct or not, not sure, it might be, then again it might not, but it very well could be, or then again, just can't seem to make my mind up
Oh I've done it again.
Hesitation Roll.
Peter.
I don't know if the bacon roll is correct or not, not sure, it might be, then again it might not, but it very well could be, or then again, just can't seem to make my mind up
Oh I've done it again.
Hesitation Roll.
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My Victory Rolls must have been a further developmeny of those perfomed during WW2.
A medium high speed run over the airfield at 2 - 500 ft AGL - slight pull up and then an aileron roll through 180 degrees to inverted - slight pause - then reverse the roll back through 180 degrees to right side up followed by a lazy immelman on to down wind for landing.
The roll reversal signified in particular that it was a victory roll and not just another spectacle.
A medium high speed run over the airfield at 2 - 500 ft AGL - slight pull up and then an aileron roll through 180 degrees to inverted - slight pause - then reverse the roll back through 180 degrees to right side up followed by a lazy immelman on to down wind for landing.
The roll reversal signified in particular that it was a victory roll and not just another spectacle.
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PB: I have four points to make about your hesitations, but undoubtedly BEagle or Milt could go further and make eight or even sixteen...!
Milt: I take it that that you didn't do that in the Vulcan...!
Milt: I take it that that you didn't do that in the Vulcan...!
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Was tempted to do it in Vulcan XA892 after a successful seperation of the first dummy Big Boy but there was too much loose stuff to contemplate any negative g and I didn't know whether the closed circuit TV installation was secure enough.
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Beegs, your statement that "we never even taught them in the RAF" is incorrect.
The current Tucano Training Manual includes aileron rolls as an aerobatic manouvre. In the past we certainly taught them on JPs and on my UAS on the Bulldog, very useful as items to keep the aircraft moving without throwing away energy in an aeros display.
The current Tucano Training Manual includes aileron rolls as an aerobatic manouvre. In the past we certainly taught them on JPs and on my UAS on the Bulldog, very useful as items to keep the aircraft moving without throwing away energy in an aeros display.
Slow rolls, hesitation rolls, aileron turns perhaps. But no, we did not teach 'aileron rolls' on the 'Dog and neither was I taught such a gash manoeuvre on the JP. Twinkle rolls on the Gnat were taught, however.