« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: The Great Bob Hoover  (Read 748 times)

Offline Arlo

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 24759
The Great Bob Hoover
« on: August 08, 2018, 04:54:07 PM »






Logged

Offline rvflyer

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 738
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2018, 05:11:44 PM »
I was station at Fort Detrick, MD for a while in the service. I worked at the Fredrick, MD airport pumping gas in the evening. Bob Hoover stopped there for gas in his Mustang and as I was talking to him he told me if I wanted I could ride with him in the second seat of the Mustang to Chicago and catch a commercial fight back. As i was in the army I would have had to go AWOL to do it. I have kicked myself ever since for not going ahead and doing the chance of a lifetime to ride with Bob Hoover in his Mustang. After all what could they have done to me send me to Vietnam? I had already been there.  :x

Quote from: Arlo on August 08, 2018, 04:54:07 PM
(Image removed from quote.)






Logged
Tour 70 2005 to present

Offline perdue3

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4670
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2018, 05:28:27 PM »
His service record is more impressive than his Shrike stunts.

« Last Edit: August 08, 2018, 05:32:17 PM by perdue3 »
Logged
C.O. Kommando Nowotny 

FlyKommando.com

 

Offline Vraciu

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 14124
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2018, 06:07:48 PM »
Quote from: perdue3 on August 08, 2018, 05:28:27 PM
His service record is more impressive than his Shrike stunts.

(Image removed from quote.)

There’s a color photo of those gals from a different angle.  I think Bob is getting out of the cockpit.  Damn impressive.  Lol
Logged
”KILLER V”
Charter Member of the P-51 Mustang Skin Mafia
- THE DAMNED -
King of the Hill Champ Tour 219 - Win Percentage 100
"1v1 Skyyr might be the best pilot ever to play the game." - Via PM, Name Redacted

Offline Brooke

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 15522
      • http://www.electraforge.com/brooke/
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2018, 06:39:59 PM »
I got to see him fly his routine in the Shrike Commander near where I lived in Michigan.  Was awesome.   :aok
Logged

Offline Vraciu

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 14124
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2018, 06:58:54 PM »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LbqcDy2R67c



Not sure what the story is on his Mustang catching fire.  I know his first one was damaged by an O2 bottle explosion...
Logged
”KILLER V”
Charter Member of the P-51 Mustang Skin Mafia
- THE DAMNED -
King of the Hill Champ Tour 219 - Win Percentage 100
"1v1 Skyyr might be the best pilot ever to play the game." - Via PM, Name Redacted

Offline Oldman731

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9402
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2018, 09:06:38 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on August 08, 2018, 06:39:59 PM
I got to see him fly his routine in the Shrike Commander near where I lived in Michigan.  Was awesome.


Saw him do it at Reading for a couple of years in a row.  "Awesome" hardly describes it.  What a pilot.

- oldman
Logged

Offline Maverick

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 13916
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2018, 10:58:51 AM »
I had the opportunity of seeing Hoover do his routines in the stang and Shrike at an airshow in Tucson when I was a kid. Also saw Duane do his stuff in the Piper Cub. They don't make them like that any more.
Logged
DEFINITION OF A VETERAN
A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
Author Unknown

Offline Nypsy

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 847
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2018, 11:01:50 AM »
I saw him fly many times at the Sussex Air Show here in New Jersey. Fantastic pilot!
Logged

Offline icepac

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6911
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2018, 08:32:40 PM »
Didn't he help "talk down" a mustang in distress only a few years ago?
Logged

Offline Puma44

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6749
Re: The Great Bob Hoover
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2018, 09:15:56 PM »
Quote from: icepac on August 09, 2018, 08:32:40 PM
Didn't he help "talk down" a mustang in distress only a few years ago?

I heard it was a problem with the landing gear not extending and he suggested rocking the wings aggressively in order to release the uplocks.   
Logged



All gave some, Some gave all
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »