"Thunder" (Thunder)
08/02/2016 at 21:32 • Filed to: None
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"Thunder" (Thunder)
08/02/2016 at 21:32 • Filed to: None | 1
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This is the best Bob Hoover video I’ve seen.
If you are unfamiliar with Bob Hoover, please give it a watch.
He took a cabin-class executive aircraft and did loops, rolls, and other aerobatics with it. Then he did it on one engine. Then he did it on none, dead-sticking it back to the airshow and managing energy to arrive precisely at show center.
I had the privilege of meeting him and speaking with him at the base of the control tower at Oshkosh one year, and that’ll stay with me forever.
He was also a fighter pilot (with Chuck Yeager), test pilot, and who knows what else. Just a great guy, and an amazing pilot. Sadly, he lost his medical a few years back, but I hear he still can fly in Australia.
I’d fly with him in an heartbeat.
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Here are a couple others.
How about rolling the airplane while pouring iced tea?
And his last airshow. :-(
Matt Nichelson
> Thunder
08/02/2016 at 21:46 |
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I have to say Mr. Hoover is one of, if not the, best pilot ever. He was just on another level.
Jcarr
> Thunder
08/02/2016 at 22:14 |
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I saw him fly the Shrike Commander at Oshkosh many years ago. It was incredible.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Thunder
08/03/2016 at 00:47 |
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His Shrike is at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy center near Dulles Airport.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Thunder
08/03/2016 at 00:50 |
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Hoover once said, and I do my best to quote him, “The question isn’t how close to the ground you can fly, but how precisely you can control your airplane.”