Handley Page Victor Low Level Barrel Roll – Awesome Colour Footage

“……Was that perhaps Raymond Baxter?”

No, definitely not Raymond Baxter; not sure who it is though. 

I watched B1’s doing that in Cold Lake on Maple Flag – equally astonished to watch big machines acting like that

It does look spectacular – but is well within the types flight envelope. It did have an operational use, that of lobing the special weapon forward and protecting the crew from the effects of the subsequent radiation blast.

However, the public, of the day, may well not have been aware of the above facts.

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Wow, that is quite amazing to watch. They look like such big lumbering things in a museum, hard to believe they were that nimble.

That was superb commentary too. Was that perhaps Raymond Baxter?

Awesome indeed; but not a loop as described in the video, rather it was an Immelmann turn. Standard manoeuvre for LABS toss-bombing.