“What do you think you were doing up there?” ″I was selling airplanes”
While the president of Boeing was allegedly quite upset, Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, was a WW1 flying ace and allegedly said “You slow-rollin’ S.O.B. Why didn’t you let me know? I would have been riding the jump seat”. So the manuever may indeed have sold some airplanes.
Here’s Tex Johnston talking about the manuever.
“What do you think you were doing up there?”
″I was selling airplanes”
While the president of Boeing was allegedly quite upset, Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, was a WW1 flying ace and allegedly said “You slow-rollin’ S.O.B. Why didn’t you let me know? I would have been riding the jump seat”. So the manuever may indeed have sold some airplanes.