https://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2018/08/03/8763777794212381922/640x360_MP4_8763777794212381922.mp4
https://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2018/08/03/8763777794212381922/640x360_MP4_8763777794212381922.mp4
Aye, caramba!
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Or is it just an upside down picture???
Major seat biter! Love it!!
Reminds me of the classic 1955 barrel roll of a Boeing Dash 80 (pre-707) over Lake Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk
It isn’t a loop. It even says it isn’t a loop. And the website is cluttered with layers of crap.
Right up there with Tex Johnson’s B707 barrel roll!
It’s still the finest airplane ever built.
That was quite the short takeoff! I know the plane is designed for that.
LOL!
Just as I started watching the Hercules loop video, a Blue Angels jet flew over my apartment building!
The Angels do a show in Seattle every year during the first week in August, which is our Sea Fair Festival, which features hydroplane races, Navy ship visits, etc.
I'm guessing that upon landing, it was moved into a hangar, had every panel removed and every inch of the airframe examined for stress cracks.
Boeing’s 707-C135 prototype did a roll over the Boeing airfield as a demo for the airline pilots.
And the Airbus crashed trying to land at the Paris airshow.
A plane that big and heavy I never would have believed it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes.
Wow.
I’m seriously impressed! A transport plane as nimble as old time prop-driven fighter plane.
Nothing new?
While I was in RVN, often it seems they would do this sort of maneuver for the benefit of the passengers, especially during the monsoon.
The Crew Chief would check that all were buckled in and go up front and announce that some of the passengers were turning green, with some assistance they might barf!
And roll and loop we went, I think?
Around 1960 we watched a firepower demonstration at Eglin AFB. It lasted around 2 hours of almost continuous demonstrations.
One of the more interesting things was a C-130 came in low, landed in a field of scrub brush, reversed props and came to a stop. He then reversed them again and took off in the same field.
This ranks up there with Tex Johnson doing a barrel roll in a 707 for doing things with an airplane they are not supposed to be able to do.
Got to wonder how many G’s he pulled on the bottom of the loop, and how much the airframe is rated for.
Wow! I was impressed to see a JATO takeoff, but nothing like this
That is bloody ASTONISHING. I love the C-130, it is a historic plane, but now I have seen everything.
If you had just told me without the video, I would not have believed it.
Just WOW!
KC-130F landing on the USS Forrestal in 1963.