{"id":7037,"date":"2015-08-08T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2015-08-08T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T14:35:42","slug":"upside-down-over-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7037","title":{"rendered":"Upside down over Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This iconic photograph was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/60-years-ago-the-famous-boeing-707-barrel-roll-over-lake-washington\/\">snapped 60 years ago today<\/a> from the window of a Boeing 707 prototype.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/60-years-ago-the-famous-boeing-707-barrel-roll-over-lake-washington\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7038\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Barrel-Roll-707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Barrel-Roll-707.jpg 760w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Barrel-Roll-707-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case it&#8217;s unclear, that airplane is flying upside down. And no, it is not about to crash. It was just in the middle of an aerobatic maneuver called a &#8220;barrel roll&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was, at least for its test pilot, Alvin &#8220;Tex&#8221; Johnston, a perfectly normal demonstration of what his new airplane is capable of doing. His company&#8217;s CEO, Bill Allen, rather disagreed, but the 707 went on to become\u00a0a great commercial success and the famous Seattle barrel roll became a matter of legend.\u00a0I first heard about this barrel roll incident more than 30 years ago from my long gone friend Ferenc Szatm\u00e1ri, physicist, private pilot and storyteller extraordinaire.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Allen never really got over this incident; decades later, when he received a framed copy of the photograph above at his retirement banquet, the memento was accidentally left behind. Then again, if someone gave me a minor heart attack like that (after all, for Allen, the future of his entire company was at stake), I, too, may be inclined to hold a grudge.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7037' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This iconic photograph was snapped 60 years ago today from the window of a Boeing 707 prototype. In case it&#8217;s unclear, that airplane is flying upside down. And no, it is not about to crash. It was just in the middle of an aerobatic maneuver called a &#8220;barrel roll&#8221;. It was, at least for its <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7037' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-hungary","category-37-id","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7041,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions\/7041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}