I apologize for the video quality... this actually took place back in the 1950s.

....brilliant snippet, of aviation history, great post! Incidentally, that photograph, is in the Smithsonian.

Tex Johnson is one of my idols as a pilot.

Definitely up there with Bob Hoover, Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield, etc.

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Oh Yeah!! Cool dude. "Light G manuever." That's what she said.... (insert bad laugh track and point finger at me)

That guy has big balls.

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I didn't know Jimmy Stewart was a pilot!

niiiice!

Quality.

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Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston (August 18, 1914 - October 29, 1998) was a jet-age test pilot for Bell Aircraft and the Boeing Company.

Tex Johnston is best known for barrel rolling the Boeing model 367-80 (better known as the Dash-80, the prototype of the KC-135 Stratotanker, which was the basis for the very first US transport jet B-707) in a demonstration flight over Lake Washington outside of Seattle, on August 7, 1955. The maneuver was caught on film and is frequently shown on the Discovery Wings cable channel in a three-minute short as part of the Touched by History series. Called before then Boeing president Bill Allen for rolling the airplane, Johnston was asked what he thought he was doing. Tex responded with "I was selling airplanes". Johnston kept his position as a test pilot, and got in no legal troubles for his actions.

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