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This is all in response to the 74yo pilot that crashed at Reno and I posted the fact that Chuck Yeager also flew when he was in his 70's. Chuck Yeager radioed that he just passed mach 1.5 - HE passed mach 1.5 - there's no mention that LC Troy Fontaine did any piloting or flew the plane at any time. Yeager was flying the same flight profile he flew when he broke the sound barrier. The F-15D always carries two people. It's never flown solo. There was no reason to mention the LC in back. You fly the plane from the front due to limited forward visibility from the back. Piloting from the back is usually done in emergencies only and pictures show CY in front. As for Hoover, the plane he flew was listed as an F16 Fighting Falcon (called the Viper), not an F16/B the two seat version trainer which would of necessity have a second seat.No mention of anyone with Hoover.

Chuck Yeager wouldn't have done any high-G maneuvers since he didn't do it in the original flight profile.

This is all in response to the 74yo pilot that crashed at Reno and I posted the fact that Chuck Yeager also flew when he was in his 70's

Of course it is. Your implied assertion is that one 74-year-old pilot is as good (physically and mentally fit) as any other 74-year-old pilot, even Chuck Yeager.

Chuck Yeager radioed that he just passed mach 1.5 - HE passed mach 1.5 - there's no mention that LC Troy Fontaine did any piloting or flew the plane at any time.

No PR there, eh?

here was no reason to mention the LC in back.

No PR there, eh?

When I asked if either one had a co-pilot, you wrote that both Yeager and Hoover were alone in the airplanes, which was not the case at all.

Chuck Yeager wouldn't have done any high-G maneuvers since he didn't do it in the original flight profile.

As I recall, Yeager didn't have a co-pilot when he flew the X-1, either.

If he's supposed to be duplicating his record-setting flight, why didn't they use a single-seat F-15? Why send him in up a two-holer?

In reality, the only similarities between Yeager's 50th Anniversary flight and Leeward flying the P-51 around Reno is that both pilots were 74 years old and both were at the controls of the airplane at the time the flights were made.