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Bob Hoover's portrait in the Rotunda at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. San Diego, CA – Aviation Legend Bob Hoover – described by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle as the “greatest stick-and-rudder man who ever lived” – passed away earlier today. He was 94. “Bob Hoover truly personified the ‘pilot’s pilot’ and was deeply beloved in ...
1 de feb. de 2017 · Ron Kaplan, enshrinement director for the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF), recalled a conversation Hoover had with Kaplan’s 14-year-old son at the Reno Air Races a few years ago. “Bob was having an intense, one-on-one discussion with my son, Max. Afterwards, Max asked if he could borrow my laptop,” Kaplan continued.
25 de oct. de 2016 · Legendary pilot R.A. "Bob" Hoover, who escaped the Nazis by stealing one of their planes, has died. He was 94. With his gravelly Tennessee drawl and his trademark straw panama hat, R.A. "Bob ...
27 de oct. de 2016 · Fighter pilot, test pilot, aerobatic pilot: Bob Hoover is considered the greatest of all by airmen worldwide. It took Flight Officer Robert A. “Bob” Hoover more than two years to get into his first dogfight, and about five minutes to get shot down. On February 9, 1944, four Focke Wulf Fw-190As jumped his flight of four Spitfires off ...
Robert A. "Bob" Hoover presented the Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture on May 18, 2010.Hoover is a fighter, military, and civilian test and air show pilo...
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Shot down by a FW-190 off the coast of Southern France, Bob spent 16 months as a German prisoner of war. In April 1945, he managed to escape from the prison camp, stole a FW-190 (according to his own biography), and flew to safety in Holland. After the war, Bob went to a Flight Evaluation Group at Wright Field, OH where he was able to fly ...
26 de oct. de 2016 · Robert A. Hoover, known to all as Bob, was born on 24 January, 1922 in Nashville, Tennessee, US. He learned to fly as a teenager, paying $2 for each 15-minute lesson. He began flying aerobatics as a way of hardening his stomach against airsickness, which had bedevilled him during training. During World War II he flew a British-made Spitfire ...
