Anyone who has ever attended an air show has witnessed the death-defying acrobatics performed by pilots. But one maneuver stands out as a crowd favorite: the barrel roll, in which an airplane does a complete 360-degree rotation while airborne.
It should come as no surprise that accomplishing this exercise is no easy feat — even in a small stunt plane or fighter jet — and it takes a skilled pilot to execute it. But is it possible to do a barrel roll in something larger, like a commercial airliner?
