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The phrase, "let's roll" has been used as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called "The Army Goes Rolling Along", which likely extended into tank usage. "The Roads Must Roll", a science fiction story written in 1940 by Robert A. Heinlein, mentions a re-worded version of "The Roll of the Caissons" called "Road Songs of the Transport Cadets".
An aircraft 'rolling', or 'banking', with its ailerons An aileron and roll trim tab of a light aircraft. An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. [1]
The aileron roll is commonly executed through the application of full aileron in one direction. In some lower powered general aviation and aerobatic training aircraft, prior to applying aileron input, the pilot must begin the maneuver by trading altitude for airspeed (i.e. diving).
In Toronto, passengers evacuated the upside-down CRJ900 aircraft – operated by Endeavor Air, a regional airline for Delta – as first responders doused its fuselage with foamy fire retardant.
Dutch roll is an aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of "tail-wagging" (yaw) and rocking from side to side (roll). This yaw -roll coupling is one of the basic flight dynamic modes (others include phugoid , short period , and spiral divergence ).
Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are actions that a fighter aircraft makes during air combat maneuvering, historically known as dogfighting.The development of BFM began with the first fighter aircraft, during World War I, then continued with each following war, adapting to the changing weapons and technologies.
Sep. 18—An Osprey aircraft caught fire Wednesday on the flight line at Fairchild Air Force Base, according to military officials. "An MV-22B Osprey assigned to a visiting detachment from 3rd ...
An American Airlines Airbus plane departing from the San Francisco International Airport had to be evacuated on July 12 after a fire broke out inside the plane’s cabin (stock image) (Getty Images)