[btreesOfSpring]

Found the anecdote at the end about him diagnosing problems while on a modern computer automated aircraft fascinating. Of course the roll of flight engineer was going to go disappear but it seems the are still knowledge gaps that modern pilots have that this roll was able to better address.

[shemtay]

role -> the role of flight engineer

roll -> do a barrel roll

[Vecr]

What's shown in the meme is actually an aileron roll, at least probably. Way too low poly to tell for sure.