wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) (09/30/85)
> Is there some law of nature that says that pilots can't die of > old age? > -- > Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug Apparenly not... so lets go find Bob Hoover, and chain him down, real tight. He's the only one we have left. Speaking of Bob Hoover, _Yeager_ gives some facinating background on him, too. Did you know Hoover flew chase for Yeager, when Yeager was flying the X-1? Ron Wanttaja (ssc-vax!wanttaja) "Archbury control, this is Ramrod Leader..."
bob@ulose.UUCP ( Robert Bismuth ) (10/02/85)
> Apparenly not... so lets go find Bob Hoover, and chain him down, real > tight. He's the only one we have left. > Ron Wanttaja Now that would be something I'd really like to see - someone trying to chain Hoover down. Even if you could get the chains around him, he'd just fly whatever you chained him down straight off the ground, do an 8 point role and disappear faster than anything the FEDs have to chase him with. Hoover seems to be able to fly anything and live through it (see Yeager's book) - wings to him would seem to be merely a convenience rather than a necessity. :-) I sure hope that he dies calmly of old age and not out over the water unable to recover from a spin. - bob (decvax!ulose!bob)