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Definition of Barrel roll
1. Noun. A roll in which the plane follows a spiral course.
Definition of Barrel roll
1. Noun. An aerobatic flying maneuver in which the pilot causes the airplane to complete one loop in the same time that the airplane completes one roll, creating the appearance that the airplane is riding on the inside of a cylinder. ¹
2. Noun. A movement (usually during a car crash) where a car flips on its roof, then falls back on its wheels after doing at least one full 360° horizontal rotation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrel Roll
Literary usage of Barrel roll
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Aviation: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1919)
"This arrangement is illustrated in the photograph of Major Bishop, Fig. 4.
Barrel-Roll. The "barrel-roll", technically known as the horizontal ..."
2. By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U. S. Navy and the War by Edward J. Marolda (1996)
"In this joint Navy-Air Force program, named barrel roll, American aircraft flew over
... As a result, the joint barrel roll force was redirected toward key ..."
3. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (1887)
"... barrel was exploded by attaching a lanyard to the eye of the primer, anil
letting the barrel roll over the parapet, as in the case of the shell-grenade. ..."
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