Johnston is best known for performing a barnstormer-style barrel roll maneuver with Boeing's pioneering 367-80 jet in a demonstration flight over Lake Washington outside Seattle, on August 7, 1955. [8]

Nov 3, 2011 · The Dash-80 was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Boeing test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston instead performed a barrel roll to show off the jet airliner. The next day, Allen summoned...

Oct 27, 2021 · On August 7th, 1955, Boeing's chief of flight testing Tex Johnston was asked to perform a simple flyover of the Boeing 707 prototype over Lake Washington in Seattle during the annual hydroplane races.

Aug 7, 2015 · Friday is 60 years since Tex Johnston’s famous barrel-roll of the Boeing 707 prototype over Lake Washington. It was a promotional stunt that in today’s dollars used a $144 million investment...

Mar 31, 2007 · Tex Johnson, the Boeing Test Pilot rolls the Prototype aircraft!He gets a Bollocking, but gets away with it!

Nov 12, 2019 · Boeing’s 367-80, nicknamed the “Dash 80” was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Tex Johnston instead performed a barnstormer style barrel roll to show off the jet airliner.

Oct 31, 2014 · In August, 1955, Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston performed the legendary barrel roll of the Model 367-80 Dash 80 as part of that year’s Seafair festival on Lake Washington....more.

Aug 6, 2018 · The famous barrel roll is the embodiment of a principle: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Tex Johnston was called in Monday morning to face the Boeing brass. "What in the hell were you...

Oct 30, 1998 · Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston, the former Boeing test pilot who aced a place in aviation history in 1955 by doing barrel rolls in a 707 over Lake Washington's Seafair hydroplane course, died yesterday...

Feb 28, 1990 · Alvin ``Tex'' Johnston, the Boeing test pilot whose barrel roll over a Gold Cup course in a commercial jet 35 years ago was one of the most famous maneuvers in aviation history, has broken a...