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Dudley, don't misunderstand me.
Hoover (an a limited number of others) are special circumstances. Everything I have read stated that the Shrike was a stock airplane. I don't recall that Hoover ever spins in the airplane. The video of the roll while pouring a glass of water is sure a hoot, though! As I said in my post, in the right hands, some maneuvers not approve by the manufacturer can in fact be performed safely. |
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"private" wrote in message news:GGgce.1150342$Xk.1123548@pd7tw3no... My comments were intended to stimulate thought regarding the consequences of poor decision making that this week has resulted in two fatalities. I have a funeral to attend and I do not know what to say to the mother who has now lost both her champion pilot husband and her champion pilot only son. Dudley, I would appreciate your guidance and wisdom as I am sure you have been in my position too many times. Yes, I have unfortunately been in this position more than I care to remember in my career. Counting our friends on the service jet aerobatic teams, my wife and I can count 32 people I either flew with, worked with, or knew professionally in our community who have been lost to fatal accidents involving aerobatics and low altitude demonstration flying. I believe I know how you must feel being faced with such a sad event. It would be presumptuous of me to even attempt to advise you on the best way to deal with it as I can't imagine a more personal thing than what you are about to do. From the way you write however, I also believe you will do the right thing. Please accept my sincere best wishes and condolences for what most certainly will be a most trying experience. Dudley Henriques International Fighter Pilots Fellowship Commercial Pilot; CFI; Retired dhenriquestrashatearthlinktrashdotnet (take out the trash :-) |
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Dudley,
Your information and attitude on this newsgroup is awesome. I would love to have you as an aerobatic instructor. You ever around the Bay Area? I would love to meet with you and talk with you sometime. If you know Bob Hoover, then I am sure you knew Amiela Reid and Wayne Handley? Those are my all time favorite airshow pilots. Before Ameila Reid passed, I would watch her performmances at the Watsonville Fly-in in her Cessna 150 Acro, so graceful. Anyway, keep up the teaching, it is not lost on everybody. Donovan C-172 Pilot 150 hrs. |
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Dudley,
As always, thanks for being here, we all value your council and your example. Blue skies to all "Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message nk.net... "private" wrote in message news:GGgce.1150342$Xk.1123548@pd7tw3no... My comments were intended to stimulate thought regarding the consequences of poor decision making that this week has resulted in two fatalities. I have a funeral to attend and I do not know what to say to the mother who has now lost both her champion pilot husband and her champion pilot only son. Dudley, I would appreciate your guidance and wisdom as I am sure you have been in my position too many times. Yes, I have unfortunately been in this position more than I care to remember in my career. Counting our friends on the service jet aerobatic teams, my wife and I can count 32 people I either flew with, worked with, or knew professionally in our community who have been lost to fatal accidents involving aerobatics and low altitude demonstration flying. I believe I know how you must feel being faced with such a sad event. It would be presumptuous of me to even attempt to advise you on the best way to deal with it as I can't imagine a more personal thing than what you are about to do. From the way you write however, I also believe you will do the right thing. Please accept my sincere best wishes and condolences for what most certainly will be a most trying experience. Dudley Henriques International Fighter Pilots Fellowship Commercial Pilot; CFI; Retired dhenriquestrashatearthlinktrashdotnet (take out the trash :-) |
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Thank you for the kind word, but I'm afraid my flying days are long over
:-) I know Bob from the old IFPF days. He was one of our charter members. You have a couple of real heavyweights there in Amelia and Handley. I never met them, but both are of course well known to me. Amelia was, before her death and remains today a legend in the California tailwheel and aerobatic community. Handley I believe is still flying the Oracle bird. God knows what Bob is doing these days. Probably sitting on his veranda out there in Palos Verdes looking at the sea gulls flying over the ocean planning some "new" maneuver to try and refusing to grow old like the rest of us.:-) Dudley wrote in message oups.com... Dudley, Your information and attitude on this newsgroup is awesome. I would love to have you as an aerobatic instructor. You ever around the Bay Area? I would love to meet with you and talk with you sometime. If you know Bob Hoover, then I am sure you knew Amiela Reid and Wayne Handley? Those are my all time favorite airshow pilots. Before Ameila Reid passed, I would watch her performmances at the Watsonville Fly-in in her Cessna 150 Acro, so graceful. Anyway, keep up the teaching, it is not lost on everybody. Donovan C-172 Pilot 150 hrs. |
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Andrew Gideon wrote:
I felt a rush the first time I flew into a cloud. The goal was to reach the point where it *doesn't* cause a rush, however. Sometimes I will stare at an approaching cloud while flying IFR (on autopilot) and imagine that it is a brick wall. The speed at which it hits the aircraft still causes a momentary rush in me. -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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john smith wrote:
Dudley, don't misunderstand me. Hoover (an a limited number of others) are special circumstances. Everything I have read stated that the Shrike was a stock airplane. I don't recall that Hoover ever spins in the airplane. The video of the roll while pouring a glass of water is sure a hoot, though! As I said in my post, in the right hands, some maneuvers not approve by the manufacturer can in fact be performed safely. I believe that Bob also said at one airshow that he never stressed the Shrike beyond its certification load limits. As someone said earlier, it often isn't the aerobatic maneuver itself that stresses the airframe, it is the botched maneuver or the recovery from a botched maneuver where the extra strength is needed. Obviously, Mr. Hoover doesn't have to worry about that. :-) Matt |
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... john smith wrote: Dudley, don't misunderstand me. Hoover (an a limited number of others) are special circumstances. Everything I have read stated that the Shrike was a stock airplane. I don't recall that Hoover ever spins in the airplane. The video of the roll while pouring a glass of water is sure a hoot, though! As I said in my post, in the right hands, some maneuvers not approve by the manufacturer can in fact be performed safely. I believe that Bob also said at one airshow that he never stressed the Shrike beyond its certification load limits. As someone said earlier, it often isn't the aerobatic maneuver itself that stresses the airframe, it is the botched maneuver or the recovery from a botched maneuver where the extra strength is needed. Obviously, Mr. Hoover doesn't have to worry about that. :-) According to Liefeld, Hoover's Shrike had just two modifications other than its smoke system. An hydraulic accumulator in the baggage compartment held hydraulic pressure so Hoover could extend the gear when the airplane was upside down and the engines feathered. It also provided Hoover with nosewheel steering following his deadstick landing and rollout. The second mod was an automatic unfeathering system. Hoover would shut down the engines by pulling the prop controls to Feather position while leaving the throttles and mixture controls in place. To restart, he would advance the prop levers, tripping microswitches on electric pumps that unfeathered the props so they would windmill and restart. Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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"jsmith" wrote in message news:J1bce.941 Robert A "Bob" Hoover was a military and civilian pilot that did things with airplanes others said couldn't be done. Mr. Hoover, however, is credited by many of the best pilots in the history of aviation to be the best pilot in the history of aviation. Bob Hoover can do an 8-point roll, power-off, in a cargo plane, glide it around the pattern and stop it on a dime. I, personally, would not attempt to do that. 'Course, I've never flown a roll in an airplane, either. I know, I know...it's a sad thing. One of these days.... -c |
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Dudley Henriques wrote:
Everything Bob does and has done in aerobatics with each and every aircraft he has flown professionally for that purpose has required special waivers from competent authority. And certainly an aircraft inspected more often than your average ragged out trainer. I saw footage of a Hoover wannabe foldering up the wings on a Partenavia during an airshow. |
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