Barrel Roll with Pilatus PC-12
 

I've heard rumours that a video was posted about performing a barrel roll in a Pilatus PC-12. Did anybody see this clip and does it still exist somewhere?

HAve a look on you tube there is a video of a Boeing Test Pilot doing a barrel roll in a 707. There was a chap that used to display a modified Aero Commander, up until the late ninety's or early this century, saw him in San Francisco doing his display. The finale was a dead stick, but he did come accross the end fence quite fast. Looked good though

Sam, you're talking about Bob Hoover. Nothing was modified on that Aero Commander.

If I remember the Feds pulled Hoover's medical a few years ago so he just kept flying on an Australian licence.

Perhaps what he really wanted was a video of a PC12 doing a barrel roll though...:=

The AHRS don't like it. Better get a PC-21 for that matter.

...here is a Citation Bravo barrel rolling - just once...

BFU Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung BFU - Press Release German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation

Not quite - it had un-feathering accumulators added, so that he could whip the props into and out of feather for engine shut downs/engine starts.

It was in the early '90s. Australia gave him a medical and licence, and he did one year of shows in Australia, before returning to the USA.

here's one more barell roll. BFU Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung BFU - Press Release German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation

The Bob Hoover Thread
 

Not to hijack but... apparently some youngsters who dont remember Bob Hoover...

He used to do an entire aerobatic routine in a 'Rockwell' P51 Mustang then repeat the show in the Shrike ( a piston twin ) - first under power, then with one engine, then a spectacular display of energy management, a long routine with no engines, ending by coasting to a stop engines silent in front of the grand stand.

This was not just a barrel roll, it was a whole series of loops, rolls and 8s.

Upon landing Mr Hoover would gladly spend hours talking with people from the crowd. He remembered me 3 years apart at a Reading Air Show and Oshkosh.

Mr Hoover was much loved by the aviation community and sorely missed. Our latter day energy management hero, Capt Sullenberger, carries the torch.

Think he used to put a glass of water on the glareshield and not spill a drop!

To me the best pilot ever.

YouTube - Bob Hoover in his Aero Commander Shrike

Watch him pouring icetea into a cup during the roll. Af.......mazing

YouTube - Bob Hoover at Oskosh 1983

Doing a barrel roll right after takeoff in a F86:

YouTube - Rare!! BOB HOOVER FLY F86 full video

I had the pleasure of seeing Bob Hoover do his display in the Aero Commander some years back. Incredible!

I still have the video of him that I took at Oshkosh some years back. Very clever flying. I saw him sheltering from the heat at Oshkosh a couple of years ago. Like all people of his age, he looks quite elderly now, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't fly anymore. Still a revered personality.
I don't really think that rolls are particularly dangerous, given height etc., as long as positive 'G' is maintained. A Lancaster was rolled, as was Concorde, by two [test] pilots on one flight!". Apparently one rolled it one way and the other 'unrolled' it so to speak!

Watched him live in 88 or 89 in New jersey and the shrike was cool, but what really impressed me was the roll right after takeoff in the Sabreliner. Flew a Lear25 at the time and to me the Sabreliner looked a bit well .... heavy and underpowered. I guess it is not.

Barrel Roll 707
 

That'd be Tex Johnston...

Alvin M. Johnston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AFTA.
Not sure I'd be too impressed with ANY roll immediately after take-off. Scared, yes, impressed no. The rest of his shows were impressive however.:)

And where is he now ?

JEM60

Well if it is done by somobody as a one off showoff i would agree but this guy kept on doing this for years. In an interview many years ago he claimed that he had lost many friends that was cutting it to close and he kept saying "It is not about how low can you go but about how precisely can you fly the airplane". Good article on him on wikipedia.

Mr. Hoover lives in Rancho Palos Verdes, California a suburb on 'the hill', in South Bay area of Los Angeles, and near Zamperini Field (Torrance) Airport.