737 does a near barrel roll

No pilot could possibly mistake a cockpit door unlock button for a stab trim switch, the 737 doesn't even have a stab trim button but a large stab trim 'wheel' so to speak.

And even if you'd trim the airplane out of balance, it would take a lot of time and effort to make it bank even remotely close to 'almost barrel roll'. If that's even possible with the autopilot switched on.

Either the media coverage is incomplete, or this is indeed a b/s article.
 
And Boeing's test pilot Tex Johnson actually did do a barrel roll with the prototype 707 (Dash-80) over prospective customers. The very plane he did it in is now in the Smithsonian Institution. Of course, Tex performed a coordinated barrel roll with no fuss. The CGI recreation of what the ANA co-pilot did only resembles a barrel roll in that the plane rolled 135 degrees at one point.
 
Cloudsurfer said:
No pilot could possibly mistake a cockpit door unlock button for a stab trim switch, the 737 doesn't even have a stab trim button but a large stab trim 'wheel' so to speak.

And even if you'd trim the airplane out of balance, it would take a lot of time and effort to make it bank even remotely close to 'almost barrel roll'. If that's even possible with the autopilot switched on.

Either the media coverage is incomplete, or this is indeed a b/s article.
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I'm impressed someone could do that with one button. Especially considering that means that no one must have been paying attention in the cockpit for that to happen slowly like that...
 
jzuena said:
And Boeing's test pilot Tex Johnson actually did do a barrel roll with the prototype 707 (Dash-80) over prospective customers. The very plane he did it in is now in the Smithsonian Institution. Of course, Tex performed a coordinated barrel roll with no fuss. The CGI recreation of what the ANA co-pilot did only resembles a barrel roll in that the plane rolled 135 degrees at one point.
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True, but Tex didn't do it with a fully loaded pig. :eek: Still not sure I am buying this story but I will say that if it is true that this plane did this, it would have been one hell of a ride!
 
Reminds me of the passage from Kirt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5

Tralfamadorian speaker: We know how the world ends and it has nothing to do with Earth, except that it gets wiped out too.

Billy Pilgrim: Really? How does it end?

Tralfamadorian speaker: While we're experimenting with new fuels, a Tralfamadorian test pilot panics, presses the wrong button, and the whole universe disappears.

Billy Pilgrim: But you have to stop him. If you know this, can't you keep the pilot from pressing ...

Tralfamadorian speaker: He has always pressed it, and he always will. We have always let him, and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way.
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jzuena said:
And Boeing's test pilot Tex Johnson actually did do a barrel roll with the prototype 707 (Dash-80) over prospective customers. The very plane he did it in is now in the Smithsonian Institution. Of course, Tex performed a coordinated barrel roll with no fuss. The CGI recreation of what the ANA co-pilot did only resembles a barrel roll in that the plane rolled 135 degrees at one point.
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How could you have a name like Tex Johnson and not be able to barrel role a 707?
 
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