2007-12-11 22:18:39 · 34 answers · asked by vijay j 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Chuck Yeager
2007-12-12 13:33:42 · answer #1 · answered by otter2 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bob Hoover. He was Chuck Yeager's backup pilot and was able to do crazy aerobatics in the most unlikely aircraft but still do it safely (not showing off and risking his and other lives)
Chuck Yeager was a cowboy who was completely at fault for his accident in the NF-104. Too many people think Tom Wolfe's version of his life is the real one. And there were a whole pile of aces who scored way better than he did in WWII.
http://www.nf104.com/stories/stories_12.html
Charles Lindbergh was made a hero by beating the odds doing something every sane pilot would call suicidal today.
Howard Hughes was a good pilot but made some very big mistakes test flying the XF-11 that nearly cost him his life (again, read the true account, not the 'Aviator' version).
2007-12-12 06:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A lot of great pilots-military & otherwise-have been mentioned, but one is conspicuously missing; Maj. Greg 'Pappy' Boyington. Flew under some of the toughest conditions-in the air & on the ground-first with the AVG in China and later with VMF-214 in the pacific.
2007-12-12 16:53:13 · answer #3 · answered by zzooti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bud Anderson
Bob Hoover
Erich Hartmann
Frank Tallman
Paul Mantz
"Mutt" Summers
2007-12-12 05:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by gromit801 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who is the greatest pilot ever? The one who makes a landing that you can walk away from.
2007-12-12 00:54:11 · answer #5 · answered by Flyby 2 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Well I'm sure there are many pilots who are good, very good at different aspects of flying.
But with that being said I would vote for Bob Hoover.
If you have ever seen him fly you would know what I mean
2007-12-14 14:42:37 · answer #6 · answered by walt554 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scott Crossfield
2007-12-14 13:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by Dennis F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, mine is Mike Bannister, the former chief Concorde pilot.
2007-12-13 07:26:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob Hoover.
He was Chuck Yeager's back up pilot on the X-1 (and a few other projects).
And Yeager himself said that Hoover was the best pilot he ever saw fly. (Quoted from Yeager's own autobiography)
2007-12-12 04:45:29 · answer #9 · answered by Trainman 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Bob Hoover
2007-12-12 21:30:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋