HOOVER’S HEROES.
Not too long ago Bob Hoover left this world but he left quite a legacy in aviation.
Known as “The Pilot’s Pilot” Hoover had an amazing career with fighter planes, experimental aircraft and will always be regarded as one of the greatest pilots who ever lived.
Hoover had some incredible stories during the war, one of the most impressive tales how he escaped from a German POW camp by stealing a German plane....“We ran across this airfield and all the planes were damaged or unflyable. But I found one that had a lot of damage but it was full of fuel. I got in the cockpit, didn’t have a parachute but I was in there and I was going and got the engine started. I took off, I didn’t even go to the runway, I went out right across the grass and got airborne.”– Bob Hoover
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