[TheForge] Bob Hoover was (Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 99, Issue 16)

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

On 4/11/2012 9:02 PM, terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
>
> bob hoover, has to be close to late 80s perhaps even 90s. he is not
> still flying is he?
>
> bob hoover, is the one man who could make an airplane "sing and dance".
>
>
The FAA pulled his medical at age 74 after an air show.  He took them to 
court and it was later restored.  In the interim, Australia granted him 
a license and medical.   He flew again in an airshow in 1997.   He flew 
his Shrike for the last time in 2003 when it was placed in a museum.   
He is 90.  I don't know when or if he stopped flying privately.   He 
recently got called to talk a P51 pilot with a stuck gear down.

Charles