Gold cup roll. From: Approach | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Barretta, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2006 U.S. Naval Safety Center. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Model 367-80, known by its designers as the Dash 80, roars over Lake Washington at 400 feet and 400 knots. The graceful swept-wing prototype airliner pitches up, rolls inverted and then upright, amazing the thousands of spectators that have come to see the 1955 Seafair Gold Cup hydroplane races.

For good measure, Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston, the test pilot flying the aircraft, rolls the 160,000-pound plane again. Boeing President William Allen, escorting potential buyers...

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