Victor barrel roll and loop - huge aircraft aerobatics

Probably the only known footage of a Handley Page Victor doing a barrel roll and half-loop. Incredible to see an aircraft of this size perform these maneuvers.

[craigallam]

Thank you whoever posted this - as the pilot’s eldest son, I have been searching for this display for years.
Dad would love to know it exists!
Dad, John (“Johnny”) Allam, used to tell us of this display.
We have it in photographic images but not in video - thank you!

[LAll-mg]

This AMAZING pilot was my father and I thank our sister for finding this incredible footage. I was cheering and weeping as I watched. RIP dad xx

[Wonkabar]

Wow! never realised how maneuverable the Victor was amazing footage.

[Blairvoyach]

Test pilots are just a different breed. This was magnificent. I see comments from the family, they must be bursting with pride.

[petersmith]

I watched a documentary on the Victor and the pilot talking was saying that if you sat at the end of the runway with full brakes on and took the power up to, I think, it was 85% he said the aircraft would scrub the tyres off as the aircraft would start moving on locked brakes .... He also said that if the ATC could give you a totally clear climb out that you could get her to 40, 000 feet in 4 minutes Totally unreal for a bomber

[thedmanify]

When the pilot is called 'Jolly Alan' you know something special is going to happen. Absolutely marvelous

[scopex]

I was an airframe tech during the era the Superb Victor was in service. I have NEVER seen one do that before. SUPERB. I will never forget though we were mid south atlantic and a victor overflew our troop ship quite high. We all waved and thought nothing of it. A few minutes later we spotted that he had turned and come back and was only about 200 feet! We were on SS Uganda heading back to Ascension Island. He did a slow fly past waved his wings to a huge cheer then climbed back up to about FL10 OUTSTANDING. If whoever that was reads this please say Hi. It cheered us all up on the long trip back from Port Stanley! He MUST remember this!

[ChrisNeil-tx]

Stunning. One of the most beautiful aircraft ever made.

[TenCJones]

Beautiful majestic and futuristic aircraft.

[richardcooke]

WOW. This footage is the talk of the town in historic aviation circles. What a sight! Thanks for making it public for us ask to see and marvel at.

[bakkerem]

Yeah baby ! Fly it like a fighter. Never thought I'd see a Victor do these kind of things. Props to the pilot and the designer for making this possible !

[gavinsolomon]

My first tour in the RAF was at Marham in 1982. I'll never forget the sight and sound of the Victor! Thank you for posting this.

[aseeker]

The Victor has the most perfect aesthetics for a war plane... magnificent.

[dt]

Strewth, I never knew a Victor could be flown like that, what a plane but what a pilot aswell, makes me proud to be British seeing this. Thanks for posting 👌🏼

[andrewwilson]

Victor, the unsung hero aircraft of the Falklands war!

[ducatiboy]

Beautiful aircraft flown by an amazing pilot.

[alexmcmeekin]

Wow! That's a huge aircraft to be thrown about like that! Zero chance of seeing similar these days!
Again... amazing!

[rnichol]

This and the vulcan were great to see in displays

[AndrewBailey-pg]

It was always the Vulcan but the Victor had the looks. An incredible aircraft flown with great skill. Amazing piece of aviation history recorded forever. Thank you

[PiDsPagePrototypes]

Well, if you're going to replace the Canberra and keep using the Toss-Bombing technique, the airframe has to be exceptionally capable.
And later they were converted to be long range tankers for the Vulcan's.