Aviation Event with Bob Hoover
by Nick on Sep.02, 2010, under General
If you are in Los Angeles or the surrounding areas, mark your calendars in red for Saturday, October 9th. Aviation Legend Bob Hoover will be the Grand Marshall at the event “A Salute to North American Aviation”, which is being held at Zamperini field, Torrance. The event is being put on by the Western Museum of Flight. Click here to get all details about the event.
Mr Hoover is a true legend of Aviation, as covered in an earlier blog this week. He is now in his late 80′s but still very active and in high spirits. No less an authority than Jimmy Doolittle considers Hoover “the greatest stick and rudder pilot who ever lived”. In the 1990′s, Chuck Yeager called Hoover the best pilot flying.
Born in 1922, he soloed at age 16 and went on to become a fighter pilot in WWII, during which he was shot down and served more than a year as a German prisoner of war. He escaped from the prison, stole a German fighter plane and made it back to allied territory in that.
He was selected at the back up pilot to Chuck Yeager, when he broke the sound barrier in 1947. In 1950, he became one of the chief test pilots for North American Aviation and, subsequently, for the merged NAA-Rockwell. Hoover retired from the aviation industry in 1986 but continued appearing in air shows after that. Click on the photo above or on this link to watch an 8 minute interview, where he describes parts of his very rich life in an interview that was done last year.
- The Museum Director, Cynthia Macha, to the left with Chuck Galbasin from the City of Torrance are doing the final planning for the upcoming event, which will be a very memorable occasion.
- If you have not visited the Western Museum of Flight and are in the Los Angeles area take the opportunity to do so. It is well worth doing it! Located at Torrance Airport, 3315 Airport Drive, they are open 10am-3pm Wednesday through Sunday.
The Western Museum of Flight is a non-profit, educational institution dedicated to preserving and displaying aircraft history and artifacts of southern California’s aviation heritage. The Museum’s educational programs give children an opportunity to see and touch the airplanes that made aviation history history.
- The collection includes warbirds, aircraft and target drones, piston and jet aircraft engines, aircraft components, aircraft ejection seats, World War II instruments, aircrew accessories, and an extensive model aircraft collection. This area is very rich in aviation history. More details about them can be found at their website: http://www.wmof.com.
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LAN’s CEO has announced an agreement with the Colombian carrier Aeroasis to enter the Colombian market. LAN will provide support to Aeroasis to gain the operating certificate from local authorities, and when obtained, Aeroasis will be adquired by LAN group, and renamed LAN Colombia.
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September 7th, 2010 on 9:12 am
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CEO Wolfgang Prock-Shauer had recently stated that he intends to leverage to full on the carrier’s Heathrow slot share.
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I apologize if this topic has been discussed in this forum but I could not locate anything recent (saw some 2007 posts)when I searched for it. Does anyone have projected 787 deliveries by year as they stand now based upon 2010 certification? Thanks in advance.
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Is United Airlines (UA) still painting aircraft in the new colors? Unlike Delta or the others, it seems UA is taking plenty of time to transfer over from the Gray scheme to the White and Blue.
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Wikipedia has a picture of IA CRJ900 in all white and says three of the four aircraft are not in livery, the first one wears Bombardier house colour with Iraqi titles and logo, the two 737 ex-Air Tran are also not in IA livery, why is this?
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September 7th, 2010 on 9:46 am
Is United Airlines (UA) still painting aircraft in the new colors? Unlike Delta or the others, it seems UA is taking plenty of time to transfer over from the Gray scheme to the White and Blue.
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A number of Asian, Arabian and African operators are still using An-12s for short-haul freighter flights. I understand that this is due to the low acquisition and lease costs. But what really is the best performing small freighter for short-haul flights ? In an operating costs perspective, as well as ability to land in short runways ?
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September 7th, 2010 on 10:24 am
To celebrate this event LH and Boeing will have a huge celebration in Hamburg among the guests will be LH CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber as well as Boeing CEO James McNerney. It was rumored that Boeing will bring a 747-8 to this event but there seems to be problems and the 747-8 is not coming. LH will show two 747-400s at this event as well as 707 painted in LH´s old 1970s livery.
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