I remember the first time I met Bob. It was at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Show. He was just sitting under the wing of this Shrike with that big ol’ hat of his. I was just a youngster, but he spent the entire afternoon talking to me. Then he got up, told me he had to “do some work,” shoo’d me back behind the rope and went and did some of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen done in that Evergreen Shrike.
From the EAA page:
Only a very limited number of individual tickets remain for the February 21 Tribute to Bob Hoover to be held at Paramount Studios Theater in Hollywood, as aviation’s top personalities gather to honor the man called by many as “The Pilot’s Pilot” and one of the greatest aviators in history.