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16-05-2008, 19:54
Flight's safety and operations editor and former RAF flying instructor David Learmount explains how to perform a barrel roll. "Barrel rolls can be dangerous because they are so gentle and feel so easy to do that even skilled pilots can get complacent about them. If that occurs, it can result in failure to monitor the progress of the manoeuvre, which is actually quite a complex process. The most common unintended outcome is to exit from the manoeuvre at a lower altitude than the entry level. The same applies to another apparently simple manoeuvre that can be carried out harmlessly – provided the pilot gets it right - in any conventionally controlled aeroplane: the “wing-over” or “chandelle”. A UK Royal Air Force BAE Systems Nimrod crew died in an air show at Toronto on 2 September 1995 when a wing-over went wrong. The aircraft plunged into Lake Ontario. See this video....