That was the last time he did that.

It’s Alvin M “Tex” JohnsTon… not Johnson… for the record.

You hire a 'Tex Johnson', that's what you get.

"Tex Johnson, brother of famous Cave Johnson..." "oh shi--"

Balls of steel. Fckn amazing

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Rolling plane about full roll 360degree big plane unbelievable wow test pilot is brave man great work by pilot ❤❤

The Man.

Let's see someone do a roll with a Boeing 737 MAX LOL. Boeing s&cks now. Crap planes, poorly made.

The way passenger jets are now , pilots have zero feel , the plane is either flying or it ain’t .

he sold the plane!!!!

Looks like me flying around in gta

Welp I was there that day after me an ol Tex were out until the last hour when the bar closed down. Yep that man was really something. One time he asked me to have "relations" with my (Ex)wife, sister and mother all at the same time and I said "Man I hope they get the job done you durn SoB". That was Tex by God, and if he wanted to be your new Dad/Uncle/Whatever, well... you just said yessir and offered to clean up the mess. Miss that ol boy I surely do.

They don’t make pilots like Tex Johnson anymore. They broke the mold with him. He helped sell thousands of 707s after that. Some are still flying to this day.

No airline cares about circus moves. And it looked like the plane dropped like a brick during the roll so not exactly "selling it"

The aircraft simply getting off the ground with this man’s balls in it tells you all you need to know about the 707.

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"Please remain seated until the "FASTEN SEATBELTS" indicators are off."

Back during the Barnstorming Era of Aviation 🪽 this would have been considered as part of the testing phase of flight. Fast forward to today, you'd have your licence ripped up & your wings torn off & your ego decimated.😮

And the quality of Boeing aircraft has been pristine ever since.

National TV India reprimanded Indian Aeronautics for fatigued components in the indigenous aircraft that led to death of test pilots. Where are you? O Starliner.

It's all about the loads

Bowling

45 years later same thing happend in a smaller aircraft but it crashed

I bet every commercial pilot has had the desire to do a roll at least once. "Sigh, Miami to New York again.... lets liven things up a bit"

Of course it's a fella called Tex doing crazy sh@#🤣🤣legend.

I remember when Boeing used to make impressive planes that don’t crash. 😢

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Ryanair pilots will give you all the excitements of a roll without doing the roll.

me in infinite flight simulator

IDOLO ICONO DE LA AVIACION!

What’s not stated in this clip is that Tex rolled the B-707 prototype twice. General Curtiss LeMay saw the demonstration and ordered a lot of KC-135s - some 734 of them.

1:01 WOW he activated the invisibility

If you try that with a Boeing product from 2024, you will be lucky to survive or at least you will be landing without a single door still attached. But also in the old days you got to have the skills of Tex to do it: In 1964 some ex-Nazi-hotshots now on civilian duty for Lufthansa tried it with a 720 on a training flight. The first roll did work out fine, but on the second try they achieved an in-flight-breakup and perished together with their plane. Sad case of wrong "roll-model"...

Nominated for *"Worst Actual Footage"* of all time.

This plane accounted for 25% of Boeing’s entire net worth at the time and there was only one of these planes when this stunt was pulled without permission. Imagine that!

Very loud engines aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Bro that aircraft got scrapped?

Tex had no brain cells wasted on DEI or pronouns.

Sounds like Jimmy Stewart

But let’s see the entrance and exit of this tunnel in Egypt!!!!

1:20 By rolling the aircraft pilot turns it into the first stealth plane getting invisible while rolling.

so a Skagit Valley man I met on an XC ski day to Stampede Pass said he owns a Twin Bonanza -- he had met a retired man "Al Johnston", & found out he had a pilot's license -- They go to fly it one day, & Al is given the movable "throwover" yoke to take off -- at ~40-ft elevation he starts a perfect 1G barrel roll "A coffeecup would not have spilled." says the plane owner Al then confesses his nickname was Tex, and yeah he had a "signature move"

Yep.

Hahaha good one Tex!!! As long as you keep her pitched upwards about 15 degrees, you're able to give the passengers an armchair workout!!!

Reminds me of the films of the "ufo's" that everyone thinks are from outer space! Grainy, fuzzy, out of focus, blurred....etc...etc....

Sir it was more than fine

Can somebody please explain why when rolling a massive aircraft like that it would only cause 1G on the whole aircraft?

Love to hear how many planes he sold that day