Aviator Bob Hoover was awarded the 2014 Wright Brothers Memorial award, an honor many had assumed he already held.
Hoover's legendary career includes escaping a German POW camp during WWII in a stolen Focke-Wulf fighter and serving as Chuck Yeager's chase pilot for the first Mach 1 flight.
He is widely known for his extraordinary airshow performances, famously executing aerobatics and dead stick landings after shutting down both engines in flight.
Like everyone else, I had assumed that Bob Hoover was already a Wright Brothers Memorial award winner. Now we can say that he really is.
Yesterday the National Aeronautic Association’s selection committee voted Bob Hoover the winner for 2014, beating out a very distinguished group of nominees in the process.
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A commercial pilot, Isabel Goyer has been flying for more than 40 years, with hundreds of different aircraft in her logbook and thousands of hours. An award-winning aviation writer, photographer and editor, Ms. Goyer led teams at Sport Pilot, Air Progress and Flying before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015.
