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Bob Hoover, one of history’s greatest pilots, dead at 94
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<blockquote data-quote="DA 20" data-source="post: 2918816" data-attributes="member: 7680"><p>One of the greatest pilots in the history of aviation <a href="http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/eaa-news-and-aviation-news/news/10-25-2016-bob-hoover-legendary-pilot-dies-at-age-94" target="_blank">died this morning</a>, according to reports.</p><p></p><p>Bob Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot, a former Air Force test pilot, and the chase plane pilot for Chuck Yeager when he broke the sound barrier for the first time, was 94.</p><p></p><p>Shot down over Germany in World War II, he was a POW for 16 months before he escaped near the end of the war <a href="https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/eaa-airventure-news/eaa-airventure-oshkosh/07-29-2016-bob-hoover-warmly-welcomed" target="_blank">by stealing a German fighter.</a></p><p></p><p>Had he remained at the POW camp a few days longer, the Allies likely would have reached him. But now he faced possible extinction at the hands of any friendly pilot who would presume his Focke Wulf was manned by the enemy.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/10/bob-hoover-one-of-nations-greatest-pilots-dead-at-94/" target="_blank">http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/10/bob-hoover-one-of-nations-greatest-pilots-dead-at-94/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DA 20, post: 2918816, member: 7680"] One of the greatest pilots in the history of aviation [URL='http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/eaa-news-and-aviation-news/news/10-25-2016-bob-hoover-legendary-pilot-dies-at-age-94']died this morning[/URL], according to reports. Bob Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot, a former Air Force test pilot, and the chase plane pilot for Chuck Yeager when he broke the sound barrier for the first time, was 94. Shot down over Germany in World War II, he was a POW for 16 months before he escaped near the end of the war [URL='https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/eaa-airventure-news/eaa-airventure-oshkosh/07-29-2016-bob-hoover-warmly-welcomed']by stealing a German fighter.[/URL] Had he remained at the POW camp a few days longer, the Allies likely would have reached him. But now he faced possible extinction at the hands of any friendly pilot who would presume his Focke Wulf was manned by the enemy. [URL]http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2016/10/bob-hoover-one-of-nations-greatest-pilots-dead-at-94/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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