Dash 80 big finish

[JSpahn]

Flying over Seattle's 1955 Seafair and Goldcup Hydro Plane Races "Tex" decides to stun the crowd by performing a barrel roll with the prototype Dash-80. After the stunt his boss asks Tex "what were you thinking", he replied "trying to sell airplanes".

[Isak922]

I coulda sworn it was a 727

Nice shot though! Bit high up to be an airshow perspective in my opinion  :-X

[JSpahn]

Its actually based on an actual event that happened in 1955. I figured I didn't really have a chance so I wanted to post  a historic moment in "airshow" history.

[machineman9]

must have been an airshow on a cliff. nice shot though. damn the rules are tricky this time around

[BuggsK100RS]

I heared bout this it was at the unvailing of the plain the test pilot wored some of the guests when he first did it and then on the return trip did it again.  I think the gests and Vips where very happy to be watching from the ground rather then being along for the ride.

[Elwood]

I coulda sworn it was a 727

It was a 707 (called "Dash 80" within Boeing).

[bok269]

i love it.  why didn't i think of that?

[JSpahn]

I coulda sworn it was a 727

It was a 707 (called "Dash 80" within Boeing).

Actually it was the prototype for the 707 it was called Boeing 367"-80" (dash 80). Thanks for all the comments guys! Its neat that the look of jetliners has pretty much remained unchanged since the 50's

[haroldkip]

To bad you don't qualify because this is a nice shot and very original 8-)

[JSpahn]

Thanks Harold!

[JSpahn]

What is even more interesting to me is this thing was still air worthy in 2003:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/08/28/fi ... index.html

[Sakura]

I've seen where that tube is now.

[JSpahn]

I went to the NASM at the national mall, next time ill go to that one

[blckhwk1]

Yeah, it was airworthy, but they had no way to test the gear, so the flew the whole trip with gear down. Also, he didn't do it intentionally. He got into a turn at high altitude and when he was gona come out of it he decided "meh, what the hell" since he was already half way into the roll why not finish it lol.

[JSpahn]

What wold you expect from a guy named "Tex"