Is it Possible to Pour a Glass of Iced Tea While Rolling an Airplane?

[scannon]

And other shenanigans from Bob Hoover. I've seen his air show several times. What a great performance.

 

[slngsht]

awesome. firing up my simulator to fly some RC.

[Off Road SHO]

That guy did a roll and was upside down just as I crested a small hill on my dirt bike in the 70's, just off the east end of Deer Valley Airport. I thought he was crashing so I tried to make a U-turn while still going up hill and finally just laid it down and high tailed it down the trail. By the time I climbed back up the hill and the rest of the guys stopped laughing, I realized that this nut was doing aerobatics in this twin engined plane.

 

I think the FAA finally told him he was too old to fly or some such rubbish. I saw him in the late 80's at Oshkosh for the annual EAA FlyIn. What a pilot.

 

Tom

[scannon]

Here's info from Wikipedia on the BS over Hoover's loss of his medical certificate. The bureaucrats were out to get him.

 

His air show aerobatics career ended over medical concerns, when his medical certificate was revoked by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the early 1990s.[14]

 

Shortly before the revocation, Hoover experienced serious engine problems in a T-28 off the coast of California. During his return to Torrance, he was able to keep the engine running intermittently by constantly manipulating the throttle, mixture, and propeller lever. Just as he landed the engine froze. Hoover considered his successful handling of this difficult emergency should have convinced the FAA that his capabilities were as good as ever.[15] Meanwhile, Hoover was granted a pilot's licence, and medical certificate, by Australia's aviation authorities,[16] enabling him to fly in any part of the world other than the United States.[citation needed]

 

Hoover's FAA medical certificate was eventually reinstated. Although sponsored insurance was available to him he was unable to get the high limits ($20,000,000) of liability insurance he desired for performing so he decided to retire from airshow performing.[citation needed]

 

Bob Hoover's Shrike Commander at the Udvar-Hazy Center

 

Now that his air show career is over, his Shrike Commander is on display at the National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center, in Dulles, Virginia[2]

[gjslutz]

As the saying goes with the FAA, "If it moves we can violate it"