Bob Hoover
 

https://vimeo.com/152663476

Not sure if this has been posted before but well worth watching.

One of the best pilots and a down to earth and decent person. :)

Ian: Excellent. It's a shame they didn't show from the inside, his real part trick of pouring a glass of water one handed while doing a barrel roll with the other in his Commander.

I spoke to an F/O about this video and then was perturbed the next flight as he stuck some lines of masking tape on his side window. Ha!

Flybiker, mate, can you find a smaller pic of Tex Johnston's piece-de-resistance please? :ok:

Hoover is one of a small number of exceptional display pilots I've been lucky enough to see - his very last Shrike display at Reno, think he was 78 at the time. Magic!

No need to please for that. It really was HUGE!
On the other hand, it made You see it ;-)
The resize is called 'messageboard-size' on the tinypic site. Hopefully it matches!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWxuKcD6vE

There you go. Iced tea as requested. Enjoy! :)

In the 70s the Middle East(Saudi) Shrike Commander was demonstrated in a very near copied sequence,by the Rockwell Pilots(Brits!!),David Gaster and Ex Red Arrow Terry Kynsey.For that time it was particularly impressive,as only Peter Phillips did a similar show with both the Islander and Trilander,which became his undoing in South Africa,when it hit the ground,and his Engineer,known as "Bullet",was quite badly hurt.Happy days,now forgotten,as are those great Pilots!!

Terry Kingsley?

Dave Gaster was a regular in UK aerobatic contests back then wasn't he?

I believe Bob Odegaard was working up a Hoover-style Shrike routine in the US a couple of years ago when he was very sadly killed in the second magnificent F2G Corsair restoration he had undertaken.

Toronto airshow.....
 

......a looooong time ago. Having a beer with him and he claimed " there's no skill involved, it's simple energy management".
"OK then Bob your energy management skills are of a VERY high order"
He laughed and fetched me another beer. Remarkable and very pleasant chap.

The Ancient Mariner

Rossian, I met him at the Toronto airshow in 1973 and would agree entirely that he was a "remarkable and very pleasant chap". Were you with the Nimrod?

Great video Ian, thanks. I recognised the B25 at 5.51 to be one I flew in at Falcon Field in 2007 after a 10 year rebuild. It was fitted with a metal nose and a huge cannon for ground attack. I was told it was the only H model made. Just a bit of trivia but I thought you might be interested.
http://www.pprune.org/members/186894...und-attack.jpg

Below, climbing out at Falcon Field Arizona.

http://www.pprune.org/members/186894...n-headsets.jpg



http://www.pprune.org/members/186894...izona-2007.jpg

Toronto...
 

.....I was, yer honor, guilty as charged. I was doing the commentary from the lakeside base, my first ever!! The "anchor" was a chap from CBC.
"Right rossian just remember there's a million and a half people listening out there" I froze!
He smoothed in and asked me about myself, where from etc. My cool returned.
Then the bloody crew went adrift from Trenton to the show - site four and a half mins late in a six minute slot. Extemporise extemporise .... That's when I was grateful for the latin teacher who made us translate on sight while he threw chalk at any mistakes - coolth under pressure.

As I walked away from the dais I was met at the fence by two women who had been in school with me back here. "recognised your voice we did". Happy days.

The Ancient Mariner

dont overfil:
Interesting - but garbled. Based at Weary Warriors in KRFD, "Barbie III" was part of the 2002 Doolittle reunion. Photo at Doolittle Raider 60th Reunion Columbia South Carolina 2002

No, I think 1000 B-25H models were built. "Barbie III" was retained at Wright Field as a test vehicle, and is the only flyable H today.

BTW, my only B-25 ride was in this ship, 5/2002, just after the Columbia reunion. I had the forethought to bring earplugs!

I was being told this after flying in it so I was probably a bit deaf. Did all the H models have the big cannon?

Some B-25 history: North American B-25H Mitchell specifications and photos