Beach Brennan wrote:
> On behalf of General Yeager, grave insult is taken. I expect you're > the first I've ever encountered who could judge between the two > best living pilots. Beach, Please accept my tongue-firmly-in-cheek remark without rancor. I am certainly in awe of Gen. Yeager's fantastic flying ability. I'd personally loan him my own Coupe, even if the insurance were invalid with him flying it, to watch him do aerobatics in a Coupe. Yet Bob Hoover has made a career specialty out of aerobatic displays using regular production aircraft. Flying aerobatics in a not-designed-for-it aircraft is a specialty. The Coupe, in particular, is a somewhat sleek airframe which will pick up speed very quickly when the nose is dropped below the horizon. It's possible to quickly get to the Vne airspeed and need to pull out quickly. Failure to anticipate this can result in that choice: do I exceed the max g-load or Vne? I'd trust Bob Hoover with my life in this one situation. Well, yeah, probably if Chuck invited me to ride along with him, I would go. Any other pilots? Don't think so. Ed (quivering in fear that one of them will take me up on the offer)
