HOOT GIBSON'S HANGAR PODCAST Scott

Hoot and pilot/country music star Aaron Tippin share their childhood memories on how they got started in aviation. They managed to sing a little bit to :)

“Because what happens during the reentry, we hit the top of the atmosphere, which is about 80 nautical nautical miles up - 400,000 feet. The flight path angle when we hit the air has to be one half degree down, one half a degree. If it's steeper than that you're gonna burn up. Because the thermal protection system on the orbiter, which the orbiter by the way is made out of aluminum, that's not going to tolerate more than about 300 degrees. We're gonna see 9000 degrees, because we're 25 times ...

“I led the race for the first two laps. I was in the turn passing the pylons, and of course, all my attention is devoted out in front of me because we're only about 30 feet above the ground and I'm doing about 225 miles an hour. All of a sudden, I feel this, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And I was actually in a little bit of trouble because of where I was sitting at such a low altitude. When I started a right turn, I noticed my right wingtip looked like turkey feathers. I had noticed after I ...

Robert “Hoot” Gibson Wins Unlimited Gold Race in “Strega” at 2015 National Championship Air Races, unseats six-time gold winner Steve Hinton in “Voodoo.”Robert “Hoot” Gibson won the Unlimited Gold Race at the Fifty-Second Annual National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada, Sept. 20, unseating six-time gold winner Steve Hinton Jr. Gibson flew the P-51D Mustang Strega and covered the course in a time of 7:52:54, for a speed of 488.983 mph.16 September 2011: In the late afternoon, six highly...

Mission Control: “Challenger, go for throttle up.”Challenger: “Roger, go for throttle up.”I would rate the Challenger investigation as one of the biggest ones that I ever took part in, probably the biggest. I had been apart of several accident and incident investigations while at NASA. I had been deposed to testify in a F-14 crash case when I was in active duty in the Navy. But yeah, the challenger investigation was probably the biggest one that I ever did. And it was huge because the whole w...

“That was the dream of a lifetime come true. I had wanted to be an aeronautical engineer and a test pilot just like my dad from the time I was 10 years old. And after not getting selected the first time I applied to test pilot school, when I got the word that yes, I'm on the list and I'll be going to test pilot school starting in June of 1976. I was just positively thrilled. When I first saw a drawing and artists concept of a space shuttle flying a re-entry, flying at 40 degrees angle of atta...