The grainy video shows something that, to today's eyes, looks impossible. Surely, it looked just as impossible then. A red-and-white Boeing 707 airliner approaching the crowd and then commencing to do a roll, something that even many pilots would find incomprehensible. But on Aug. 7,1955, in front of an audience, that's just what Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston did.
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