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Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project
2014 · Film · documentary · 86 min
Directed by Kimberley Furst
Bob Hoover tells his own story and shares, with his trademark charm, the hard earned wisdom of a life spent pushing the edge of the envelope while contributing to aviation’s many developments.
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That was the late, and definitely great, R.A. "Bob" Hoover, I am proud to have shared a beer with him at Oshkosh. His Shrike Commander was miss-fueled with jet fuel instead of avgas because it was mistaken for the the larger turboprop model. Rather than blaming the individual refueler, he recognized that there was a systemic problem and developed an engineering solution. He proposed and the industry adopted a mutually incompatible standard of fuel nozzles/receptacles for jet fuel and avgas as a result. You can find some great YouTube material on him, or the film "Flying the Feathered Edge"
https://sierrahotel.net/blogs/news/a-life-lesson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover#Hoover_nozzle_and_Hoover_ring
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334694/