Video: Forward thrust into backwards barrel roll - with trails

[Brakespear]

Hanging out in deep space, just outside the Pleiades Nebula, started playing with my engine trails.

So here's a clip of a forward thrust into a backwards barrel roll, which allows you to leave some fancy spiral trails.

The backwards barrel roll itself has limited tactical use, but if you haven't figured out how to do a rapid 180 using the afterburner, you might want to check this out:

[video=youtube;IGF5xGJ2cV4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGF5xGJ2cV4[/video]

Incidentally, if Frontier could release some trail colour options, like in Homeworld, that'd be great.

 

[ShadowWolf Kell]

Not to be nitpicky but that's a corkscrew. A barrel roll is something else entirely.

 

[Brakespear]

Well, I don't really care much about the name. This is what wikipedia says:

The barrel roll is so named because an aircraft executing this maneuver looks as though it were flying with its wheels running around the inside wall of a cylinder, or an imaginary barrel lying on its side. A more common modern visualization is to imagine an airplane trying to fly in a horizontal corkscrew around the line of the direction of travel

It's a spiralling sorta thing, mister/missus pedantypants.

That's my official name for it. Spiralling Thing™

 

[ShadowWolf Kell]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBxCShr1_g

 

[Brakespear]

Still failing to see the distinction here.

What's the difference between a corkscrew (incidentally, I can't seem to find any google results for that) and a barrel roll?

More to the point, given that I'm flying backwards and using vertical thrust to maintain speed, I'm not sure *either* name applies. It's not as if real planes have RCS thrusters on the roof capable of propelling them at at a 90 degree angle to their current trajectory.

 

[ShadowWolf Kell]

Still failing to see the distinction here.

What's the difference between a corkscrew (incidentally, I can't seem to find any google results for that) and a barrel roll?

A corkscrew uses 2 axis. Roll and Pitch. A barrel roll uses 3. Roll, Pitch and Yaw.




Repeatedly using barrel rolls becomes Rolling Scissors



As you can see, there's more of a vertical element which involves using 3 axis of movement. It's often used as an energy fighting technique.