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- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -5/+68And that damn well better be sweet tea! :)
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+52Although, he was flying the aricraft and pouring the tea at the same time. That takes balls, especially considering he wasn't in a sport aircraft.
- RandomChu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55I'm sure Peppy would be proud. He didn't even have to press Z or R twice!
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54This is one of the few stories on Digg that should actually have used the title "Amazing". That guy is utterly 1337, for the lack of a better word!
- 5thfreedom, on 10/12/2007, -26/+63What the hell? Are you 12 and just learned your first swear word? F this, F that, F this, F that. Grow up.
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30The solemn truth: My mother dated Bob Hoover for a few months in the late 1970s. I got to ride with Bob in that Twin Commander on several occassions and through a few aerobatic manouvers. I was a teen just learning to fly at the time and it was all quite exciting and led me to pursue aerobatics on my own, a sport I still enjoy today.
Bob's ability to manage energy in a very precise way was at the core of his airshow routines and no one has ever done it better. His flying is extraordinarily smooth, graceful and respectful of the airframe limitations of non-aerobatic aircraft--he could maintain a perfect positive 1 G in almost any attitude.
Ultimately, Mr. Hoover was a bit too conservative for my mother's tastes and they both moved on. He drank mint juleps. - EternalNY1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Bob Hoover is a legend in flying, this proves why.
And for all of those complaining that this is "nothing special" and its all just physics, well duh... but have you ever flown a plane? It's VERY hard to do an absolutely perfect barrel roll in a plane this size, which is required to keep the cup from tipping over.
And I'm a commercial pilot, so I speak from experience. - KVargs, on 10/12/2007, -8/+28i dont, direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBcapxGHjE
- Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Not just a perfect barrell roll mind you...
one handed
engines off
not a particularily sporty plane
splitting concentration between not crashing and not spilling
as I see it, this man is some sort of mutant with 3-4 hands and several extra eyes. - schokie, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29Sweet. Several cool tricks on that video.
Pouring anything while doing that manuver isn't too difficult. All you have to do is maintain constant positive G the whole time. You wouldn't even know you were upside down if it wasn't for looking outside. - zionKing, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27@Adoozie... Don't be a bigot. Just because we aren't living in Sacramento and aren't attending Sacramento State University, doesn't mean we're lesser people for it. Michael Daniels, just focus the good things in your life, as you mention in your posting at gamingw.net:
- College. Best part of my life so far.
- A loving and supportive family.
- Great friends, all of whom share a different portion of my interests.
- A good job. Could be better, but great for a student position.
- Roommates who I have things in common with.
- Ability to sleep in on two weekdays this semester. I love sleep.
- A boyfriend who's perfect for me.
You sound like you know better than to Southern bash, am I right? Please don't disseminate hatred, it doesn't look good on you and it degrades the digging experience.
ps. This pilot rocks - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26DO A BARREL ROLL
- esteban, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Here is the perma-link for posterity: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006784.html
And the actual link for convenience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBcapxGHjE - PRESS_00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Well done! Now where's my flying car so I can try this on my own?
- D4V1S, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17it's in Australia according to Google Earth
- ckohler, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18PRESS Z OR R TWICE!
- Ryetronics, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16As far as I see it, the link worked, the video was on his blog and easy to find. Big freaking deal. There was also some cool pics on there that I enjoyed, so I'm glad he linked to his blog.
I'm starting to find that digg users run the bandwagon on blog rants and MySpace hatred.. - scottybowl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14just because something is easily explained by science doesnt make the achievement any less remarkable
yes, its scientifically easy to make a firework, but that doesnt mean someone in their back garden with a toilet tube and some gun powder can make a rocket - keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm pretty sure that my grandfather knows Mr. Hoover. I think I've got a signed copy of his autobiography, Forever Flying, around somewhere; I think I'll read it.
From the book cover:
"Barnstormer, World War II fighter, test pilot, aerobatic genius - Bob Hoover is a living aviation legend, the man General James "Jimmy" Doolittle called "the greatest stick and rudder pilot who ever lived." Hoover's career spans the history of American aviation, and now he tells his amazing story with all the flat-out honesty and gusto that have made his life an extraordinary adventure. At twenty-two, Hoover was a decorated World War II fighter pilot, already famous both for his aerobatic abilities - including looping under a bridge in Tunisia - and for surviving seventeen equipment-failure crash landings as a test pilot. Then the Germans knocked his Mark V Spitfire out of the sky. He made three attempts to escape en route to the infamous Stalag I prison camp, and after sixteen brutal months, finally escaped by stealing a German plane and flying it to Holland. After the war, Hoover tested the first jets at Wright Field, dogfighting Chuck Yeager, the man who'd come to call him "Pard." In the quest to break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, Hoover endured every step of the grueling G-force training along with Yeager. But soon after Yeager's historic flight, Hoover broke both his legs in a desperate bailout from a blazing F-84 Thunderjet - dashing his dreams of flying the X-1 himself. In FOREVER FLYING, we relive the thrills and danger Hoover continued to face as a civilian test pilot: testing the first jets to take off and land aboard aircraft carriers; flying bombing runs over North Korea; and demonstrating new planes for fighter pilots, who had to be warned not to attempt to duplicate Hoover's spectacular spins, stalls, and rolls. He became an adviser to engineering on the X-15 rocket, and rose through the corporate ranks, famed for flying his daring aerobatics routines in a business suit and straw hat instead of a pilot's 'G suit.'" - UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Looks light that video link has been sitting on Bob Hoover's Wikipedia entry for a couple of months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover - RubeusEsclair, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Yeah, because its that easy to fly a plane and even easier to do a roll while maintaining the proper amount of g-force.
- antron, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15You mean Centripetal Force, dyslexic boy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_force - keithharrison, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Cool story wistar. Totally jealous. I did had the pleasure of meeting Bob Hoover at the Reno Air Races several years ago though. Had a chance to talk for awhile. He's an amazing man.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Tex Johnston did that with prototype 1 of the 707 in front of thousands, and with a bunch of Press and Bigwigs on board. Many of them didn't even know it was happening. Tex was a great test pilot.
http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?file_id=390 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14or, umm centrifugal.. Since there is no such word as 'Transapical' according to wiki.. (or common sense)
- kirkio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Provide a permalink next time. Otherwise, when the blogger posts a new story, this one will get bumped down.
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006784.html - culebra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Because in an airplane a ROLL as it were, when applied a slight amount of rudder then creates a corkscrew effect, which allows for positive G's. All while being done in a rockwell aero commander. BAD ASS!
- TheCheeta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And if aviation pioneers thought like that we'd still be... well... not flying.
- DeadlyCouncil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That man is my god...
- bluehouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Impressive. Most impressive
- zombiedog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well I see you guys discovered Bob Hoover and the sublime art of energy management in flying. Bob is truly larger than life in the flying game. He was the backup pilot for Chuck Yaeger's X1 breaking the sound barrier flight (and if anyone had found out about Yaeger's injury would have flown it). Great video, bad way to link...
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, that guy has prodigal talent, I don't care how much his modesty doesn't let him recognize it.
- andrew911tt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that was awesome I want more videos of his
- Ryetronics, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I remember a Pepsi commercial that did this back in the 80's. I think it was during the Top Gun marketing hoopla.
- Mipmap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Tex Johnston did that with prototype 1 of the 707 in front of thousands"
Apparently there were Boeing bigwigs on the ground as well that saw it, and they were majorly pissed, but Tex Johnston said something like "the plane never knew it was upside down" - which is true, if you maintain 1G, there is no unsafe stress on the airframe - no danger of damaging the aircraft. Very bad ass.
Side note - I heard the above story on some PBS show about the Boeing 777, which was also pretty cool. The tests they do on these airliners is astounding - bending the wing 50 feet before it breaks, scraping the tail on the runway for a mile, heating up the brakes until they catch on fire (and having the fire burn 5 minutes before extinguish it) - all to test the engineering is safe and sound on these aircraft. - Brewdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Consider the manliness:
- cutting off your own arm which pins you to a boulder
- standing defiantly in the path of a tank
- high-speed aerobatics with no engine running
Yep, this man has enough balls to earn my respect. - domr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I don't think it's *his* blog. It's Jeremy Zawodny's blog. A well respected source on all things everything. :)
- diafel, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14I'm pretty amazed that anyone could not share this opinion. Who likes blog spam?
- Ryetronics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That rules. Thanks for the link.
- erikjernberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That is absolutely incredible. A combination of two things that I enjoy very much. Aviation and Digg. Not only does that video show the iced tea trick, but it also shows some incredible flying too. Very cool.
- Mykal73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That was awesome, especially since it wasn't a sport plane.
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -18/+21Seems like a really interesting person. I'd like to meet him.
- Sielencer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Haha that was cool I dont care what ***** is gonna say some smart scientific thing about how that is possible..thats just good ***** i liked that video
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4close, but actually centripital forces act around the cener of the thing, holding it TOGETHER, not what 'holds it in the bucket'. you misread wiki:
For an object at the end of a rope rotating about a vertical axis, the centripetal force is the horizontal component of the tension of the rope which acts towards the axis of rotation. For a spinning object, internal tensile stress gives the centripetal force that holds the object together in one piece. - gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Thats a pretty cool story about the generals and their coffee
- tblanchard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have seen Bob Hoover's AeroCommander sales demo (he works for the company that makes those planes "demonstrating" their capabilities at airshows) and the man is simply a God on the order of Yeager.
I say this as a private pilot and skydiver who has ridden in an awful lot of flying things with an awful lot of pilots. - rwelsh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not to mention he was flying a bunch of generals around who wanted him to get cocky. NO pressure at all... :-)
- fornulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been lucky enough to see Bob Hoover fly at a few airshows over the years now. To say he's a helluva pilot would be to damn him with faint praise. He can do things that makes other pilots shudder. And then he goes onto the hard stuff...
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was able to see his entire routine at an air show back in the early 1990s at NAS Miramar. His energy management maneuvers were even more impressive in person. See Wistar's comments above: his flying style was extrodinarily smooth, thus able to not waste energy maneuvers.
Check the Wikipedia entry. The best comment comes from Gen Jimmy Doolittle as "the greatest stick and rudder man who ever lived." This from the guy who figured out how to fly a B-24 from the deck of an aircraft carrier. - Nekronaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I saw Bob Hoover at Oshkosh WI EAA fly-in a few years back. He did his signature unpowerd loop and landing in his turbo commander. He is one amazing pilot!
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