C-27J Spartan performing a barrel rolls.

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Taptrick@reddit

Tex would be proud.

It’s an aileron roll, a straight forward 1-G manoeuvre that technically any aircraft can aerodynamically perform. Pretty neat.

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fujimonster@reddit

There is a video of a 707 doing one back when it was in testing stage — it’s probably on YouTube

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KennyLagerins@reddit

No. Aileron rolls are a spin around one central axis. Pilot needed to change the pitch, so this is a barrel roll.

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Far_Necessary_2687@reddit

Well he does use pitch so in-between an aileron roll and barrel roll.

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Guthix_Wraith@reddit

Oh good. I thought I remembered star fox getting that wrong back in the day

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BonChance123@reddit

Jeez, my knowledge has been saved by a random redditor. How swell.

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Conscious_Quality803@reddit

That's genuinely impressive.

And I'm thinking back to the one time I got to ride in the back of one, seated on the floor, and that terrified me a little.

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When I was a little kid on my first commercial flight, I asked my mom when they'd start doing barrel rolls and loop de loops. I was all kinds of annoyed when she told me that wasn't something they did.

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LockPickingPilot@reddit

For the life of me. I don’t know why the spartan was not a successful aircraft.

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Wide-Balance5893@reddit

To be fair, some transports have TTPs for "defensive" maneuvering in combination with countermeasures or electronic defensive capes. Also some are being tested w/ offensive capes for defensive purposes. Now imagine this aircraft yeeting off a missile mid barrel roll...

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