mjb@cbnewsh.att.com (michael.j.burns) (07/12/90)
I read a short piece in the local paper last night saying that NASA astronaut Hoot Gibson was involved in a fatal accident at an airshow in Texas this past weekend, and NASA has grounded him for one year because he was doing something he shouldn't oughtta have done. When I worked at JSC a few years back, I occasionally flew out of the same airport where Hoot kept his homebuilt (Clover Field). He was sort of a wildman there. For example, one time he zipped underneath me when I was only a couple hundred feet up on final, so he could do a cool touch and go. (Guess I was going a little slow in my C-150 for his taste. :-) ) There was an unspoken rule that you didn't give astronauts any grief when they did dumb things like that... Anyhow, I was just wondering if anyone had more details on the accident or Hoot's suspension. Mike Burns mjb@hound.att.com