Title: Re: The Great Bob Hoover
Post by: rvflyer 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
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
Title: Re: The Great Bob Hoover
Post by: Maverick 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.
Title: Re: The Great Bob Hoover
Post by: Nypsy 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!
Title: Re: The Great Bob Hoover
Post by: icepac on August 09, 2018, 08:32:40 PM
Didn't he help "talk down" a mustang in distress only a few years ago?
Title: Re: The Great Bob Hoover
Post by: Puma44 on August 09, 2018, 09:15:56 PM