Posted on 04/14/2006 7:40:54 PM PDT by concentric circles
Bob Hoover, Buzz Aldrin and Cliff Robertson at a DC-3 monument dedication earlier this year.
A Focke Wulf 190 like Hoover and Ennis stole.
The B-17G Flying Fortress “Aluminum Overcast" that Hoover will be flying into Van Nuys on Saturday, catch a ride for $400.
I thought he was deceased. Who was the guy who was killed filming the James Bond movie several years ago?
Now that is what Hollywood should make a movie of. Not a couple of queers.
they already did. It was a scene from the Great Escape.
Why did he fly a Spitfire? Was he a photo recon pilot?
The first time I saw Mr. Hoover perform was at the Rockord Air show many years ago (before the EAA moved it to Oshkosh, IIRC).
He put on quite show in an Aero Commander (Shrike ?). Finishing up with a dead stick loop and a 3 point landing. I was pre-teen, and just awestruck at his flying ability.
Rockord=Rockford (IL) Duh
I too am totally awestruck. These wonderful heroes lived out their lives while I was in high school. God bless them, they are beyond blessed heroic, they gave my generation our freedom and more generations onward.
I cannot thank the WWII heroes enough. Words and tears fail me, it has been too easy to live because of them!
The 52d Fighter Group was formed early in the war, before U.S. manufacturing was in full production. The Brits were surviving on air power so there were Spitfires available and some Americans had already been flying Spitfires with the RAF. The group confirmed 425 kills and produced more than 20 Aces.
Thank you for posting the link above. I have seen Mr. Hoover perform his energy management routine many times at Reno and was a warrior in the fight to get his license reinstated.
(Not the tea-pouring, but the consevation of momentum thing.)
Ditto, but they won't. Makes heros out of Americans.
I met Bob Hoover at AOPA in Palm Springs in '98. Had I not been so dumb and known he would be there, I would have had asked him to autograph my logbook.
Art Scholl was lost over the Pacific during the filming of 'Top Gun'. Sorry, I don't know about a pilot loss during a James Bond film shoot.
If Jimmy Doolittle and Chuch Yeager both called him the best, then he must have been a fairly good pilot.
I had the wrong movie - no wonder I wasn't having any luck with google!
Mega Bump!!!
Magnificent story. I feel humbled reading it.
**Art Scholl was lost over the Pacific during the filming of 'Top Gun'.**
I was just a teenager when I first saw Art Scholl perform at Oshkosh back around 1971 in the Chipmunk (Mr. Hoover was there as well). I somehow never heard how he was killed. I assumed it was during one of his night aerobatic shows.
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