Talk:Barrel roll

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Copyright junk prevented me from posting an img, can someone do it? Armanalp 14:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Barrel roll on skis

The instructional portion of this section is in violation of Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information of WP:NOT, under subsection 4, "Instruction Manuals". Step-by-step instructions are considered unencyclopedic by official policy, but it would be acceptable to reword it in a less instructional tone ("The person to perform the barrel roll approaches a jump with both hands held at shoulder level, then throws his or her right arm toward their left hip", etc.). ~ Eidako 02:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I see.. Armanalp 15:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Ugh, serious business and all that jazz, right? If you have a problem with it try fixing it yourself. I wonder if there's a wiki somewhere that IS an "indiscriminate collection of information". --64.246.116.255 01:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

This ski thing does not belong on this page. It doesn't even make sense. --AW 08:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In combat

The combat manuever described has a link to overshoot but the aviation definition of overshooting, as it says is to abort a landing. Which doesn't make sense, so either the definition of overshoot need to be adjusted or the link should go, because it's just confusing.Atzel 18:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Done, I've removed the link. Armanalp 18:16, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In "Internet Meme" category, but no information on the meme?

DragoonWraith 05:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC): OK, so we all (er... Internet nerds like myself) know that the phrase "Do a barrel roll!" became famous after Peppy shouted it at the beginning of Star Fox 64, and that the phrase has been used in a myriad of situations on the Internet; it is, in fact, an Internet meme. But there's no information about that here. Do A Barrel Roll redirects to the list of Star Fox characters, to the Peppy section, which does mention that the phrase has become a popular Internet fad, but that can't be in the Internet Meme category (unless you can categorize redirects? I've never tried it). So, does anyone have any information about the meme or how it got started (seeing as Star Fox 64 came out in 1997, it seems likely that it only became a meme later) or anything like that?

As is so often the case with Internet memes, 4chan gets the credit/blame. Suffice to say, somebody made the mistake of asking /b/ for advice, and "Do a barrel roll" was one of the few non-obscene replies. Unfortunately, this leaves us with the usual dearth of citable sources for anything 4chan-related. — Red XIV (talk) 10:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Ahh, you gotta love Anonymous, eh? What about rebooting the router to get a new IP? That is often referred to as a barrel roll... I suppose we don't have cite able sources, so I'll throw that out there and be back later with sources.204.49.209.155 17:50, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
One thing that could be mentioned is that the total randomness of Peppy's quip is what lent it to become a meme. Gargomon251 23:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Interestingly, the folks who watch the pokemon wikipedia entry seem to have sworn a blood oath to prevent the mudkip meme from entering their fiefdom. Why is the barrel roll meme ok here but the mudkip meme not ok there? Cratylus3 18:56, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Been waiting SO long for this article. Thankyou for finaly making it, we need to add the mudkip meme into the mudkip article now. EDIT: wow it's been here 2 years and I never saw it before!--194.80.204.29 15:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 707 Barrel Roll video

The YouTube video of the 707 barrel roll, while difficult to see, doesn't seem to show the craft with it's nose "at 90 degrees to the general path of flight" at any point. Is it necessary to be at fully 90 degrees, as described, at some point before the maneuver is considered a barrel roll? 65.174.156.30 (talk) 17:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Execution

Aileron roll includes an 'execution' section describing, generally, how one performs an aileron roll. Would a similar execution section be appropriate her for the barrel roll? 65.174.156.30 (talk) 17:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

A tutorial/execution section would be great, particularly if you have the authority and understanding to do so! —Sladen (talk) 22:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)