Whistle blower Karlean Pettit
01-15-2021, 04:04 AM
#241
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Many successful people from rough backgrounds learn along the way that honey catches more flies than vinegar.
01-15-2021, 05:16 AM
#242
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Originally Posted by crewdawg
This! My grandparents, and their siblings, grew up the same way in the hollers of eastern Kentucky. Somehow they all managed to learn that lesson...
01-15-2021, 05:23 AM
#243
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Originally Posted by Big E 757
My first flying job was in Western Kentucky. I didn’t grow up there, and the good ole boys I worked with always called the areas in Eastern Kentucky “hollers”. I never figured out what it meant. What does “hollers” refer to? Do you know?
01-15-2021, 01:32 PM
#245
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Originally Posted by tennisguru
I think it means "hollows", or the lower valley areas between hills and mountains.
01-15-2021, 01:34 PM
#246
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Meh. That was then, this is now. They wouldn't even give him wings today, unless he was fly helos in the army. Still need a 2-year to compete for that.
Yeager was also reasonably one of the best test pilots of the golden age. In his peer group he should have been an astronaut and walked on the moon... but he didn't have a degree. So you could make a case that college would have gotten him further in life.
Yeager was also reasonably one of the best test pilots of the golden age. In his peer group he should have been an astronaut and walked on the moon... but he didn't have a degree. So you could make a case that college would have gotten him further in life.
Hoover was a low key guy. He did some amazing things - you won't hear about most. Chuck was right place right time. Never going to take that mach 1.0 away from him though.
01-15-2021, 01:59 PM
#247
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Originally Posted by Drum
Having met both, I would say unequivocally R.A. "Bob" Hoover was probably one of the best ever. Not Yeager.
Hoover was a low key guy. He did some amazing things - you won't hear about most. Chuck was right place right time. Never going to take that mach 1.0 away from him though.
Hoover was a low key guy. He did some amazing things - you won't hear about most. Chuck was right place right time. Never going to take that mach 1.0 away from him though.
1. The Wright Brothers, for first flight
2. Bob Hoover, best stick and rudder man there ever was
3. Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon
4. Chuck Yeager, first person to break the sound barrier
5. Charles Lindbergh, first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Your list may differ. I am okay with that.
01-15-2021, 02:12 PM
#248
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Originally Posted by TransWorld
I agree. My rank of my greatest aviator heroes are:
1. The Wright Brothers, for first flight
2. Bob Hoover, best stick and rudder man there ever was
3. Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon
4. Chuck Yeager, first person to break the sound barrier
5. Charles Lindbergh, first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Your list may differ. I am okay with that.
1. The Wright Brothers, for first flight
2. Bob Hoover, best stick and rudder man there ever was
3. Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon
4. Chuck Yeager, first person to break the sound barrier
5. Charles Lindbergh, first person to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Your list may differ. I am okay with that.
01-15-2021, 03:04 PM
#249
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Originally Posted by Drum
Having met both, I would say unequivocally R.A. "Bob" Hoover was probably one of the best ever. Not Yeager.
Hoover was a low key guy. He did some amazing things - you won't hear about most. Chuck was right place right time. Never going to take that mach 1.0 away from him though.
Hoover was a low key guy. He did some amazing things - you won't hear about most. Chuck was right place right time. Never going to take that mach 1.0 away from him though.
One of my old corporate flying buds dad was in the same POW camp with Bob. Bob escaped by stealing a German aircraft and flying out. My coworker’s dad, Mr Cecil, told us Bob’s favorite thing to do in POW camp was sneak s blade of grass in the barrack at night and put it between his thumbs and squealing like a wounded rabbit. Said it ****ed off the Germans because the dogs wouldn’t stop barking.
