Terry said:Hi All:
I am curious. How do you do a barrel roll.
How do you get the airplane to make a wide arc roll?
Thanks;
Terry
P.S> I am not trying it, just curious how it is done.
Areeda said:I think of it as part of a family of lazy eights, wing overs and barrel rolls. In the lazy 8 you're about 45° bank at the 90° point. In a wing over you're 90° and a barrel roll you're 180°.
lancefisher said:When I first tried a barrel roll I didn't realize that the heading of the airplane changes quite a bit during the roll because that tidbit wasn't mentioned in the texts I had read. You end up on the same heading but at the 180 point (like in a lazy 8) you are pointed well off the initial and final heading. You also end up displaced laterally a fair amount, something eles I misunderstood.
Henning said:Depends on how much horsepower you have. If you have a high power/high energy plane you can enter from level flight, otherwise you're gonna have to dive for airspeed.
Bill Jennings said:While I did fairly decent barrel rolls during my aerobatics course, I still can't see in my minds eye what the whole thing looks like. Weird.