North American T-6 Texan Barrel Roll Crash

http://www.AviationBB.com - A North American T-6 Texan pilot attempts a low altitude barrel roll but fails to comlplete the manuveour wih a fatal end.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• North
• American
• T-6
• Texan
• Barrel
• Roll
• Crash
• aircraft
• flying
• pilot
• combat
• barrel
• roll

[riswit]

He simply did not raise the nose high enough for the rate of roll he perfromed

[BRITSIMdotCOM]

Terrible tragic mistake and my complete commiserations with his family - but as they always say: 'there are old pilots and there are bold pilots - but there are no old bold pilots...'

[nachtjager77]

Also, Joe was a VERY accomplished stunt and warbird pilot and Reno T6 air racer. He flew the DBAF's B-25 across the Atlantic to them and I watched video of him doing a true barrel roll with that B-25 at about 3,000 feet. I've never seen anyone else do a barrel roll in a B-25, but that's the kind of pilot Joe was. On this day, he simply wasn't well and shouldn't have been flying, but nobody was going to keep him on the ground.

[nachtjager77]

Knew Joe well. Points not brought up so far. This was his 1st airshow back since an apendix operation and he was not feeling well that day. Crash came at the end of a 15 minute routine, I know for a fact he was sick before he got in the plane. Shouldn't have done the show, but that was Joe, he was a performer. It was also the 1st time he'd flown this T6 in an airshow. Bud Firth had just bought it and was mad at Joe that he wouldn't let him ride during the act. Needless to say, that saved Bud.

[jrcadet4]

Sadly, he was also rolling to the right...which made torque a factor. And my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. That didn't need to happen.

[likeawhispr]

@Integ41 I fully agree with HuskyMaxx... no reason to name call, but it is obvious to anyone with any type of Pilots license that he didn't nearly have enough altitude to perform the roll. It looks like that old thing was a bit low on airspeed too. A loss of a pilot isn't something to celebrate, but this crash does illustrate a textbook pilot error regardless of the pilot's past accomplishments.

[scrubbygoat]

Altitude = Insurance

[Clearly69]

lol



[HuskyMaxx]

This was just plain pilot error. I mean, not even close to the altitude he should have been at to try this in that old beats. What a shame.

[Integ41]

@Chicawolverina An extremely accomplished airshow and air race pilot a hick? Multiple people with years of first hand experience of his flying singing his praises, you've seen a 16 second video of him. Get off your high horse.