snap-roll

snap roll

noun Aeronautics.
a maneuver in which an airplane makes a rapid and complete revolution about its longitudinal axis while maintaining approximately level flight.

Origin:
1930–35

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Snap-roll is always a great word to know.
So is compressional strain. Does it mean:
fractional volume change of a body due to uniform pressure
external force acting on an object or surface parallel to the slope or plane
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snap-roll

[snap-rohl] Aeronautics
verb (used with object)
1.
to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
verb (used without object)
2.
to execute a snap roll.
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