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barrel roll

An aerobatic maneuver in which an airplane rotates 360° around the longitudinal axis while the nose of the aircraft describes a circle about a real or imagined reference point on the horizon. In this maneuver, occupants are under positive acceleration at all times unlike in a normal roll where negative acceleration (–g) is experienced.

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Back then it was Flynn doing all the moves, from slow rolls and split S moves, to barrel rolls and Cuban eights.

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