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Apr 30, 2009 · Riff Raff 's owner, retired physical therapist Mike Keenum, has over 10,000 hours of flight time and flies Riff Raff in airshows, but at Reno, he wants Gibson's hands on the stick and throttle. In ...
Hoot Gibson was a colorful figure, a light-hearted, fun-loving personality on screen and off. Hoot’s cheerful westerns included a significant amount of comedy. His mild, peaceful character rarely carried a gun. As an expert horseman, Hoot was always impressive on a galloping horse. Gibson’s film career began in 1910 with a few films for the Biograph Company interspersed among rodeo ...
Mar 3, 2017 · How did Hoot Gibson, the legendary cowboy-actor get his nick-name? First off, his real name was Edmund Richard Gibson. He was born in Tekamah, Nebraska in 1892. As a teen, he was employed as a cowboy and horse wrangler, and in 1912 at the Pendleton, Oregon rodeo, won a silver-platted saddle and trophy proclaiming him All-Around Champion Cowboy.
Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson commanded four of the five Space Shuttle missions on which he flew, including the first docking of a shuttle with the Russian space station Mir. Gibson was born October 30, 1946, in Cooperstown, N.Y., and received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from California Polytechnic State University in 1969.
A wonderful series of interviews with Hoot Gibson. He is a Topgun pilot, Astronaut, air racer, instructor, engineer and much more. This is the first part of ...
Aug 16, 2010 · ED10-0230-12. Former NASA Space Shuttle astronaut and noted air race pilot Robert “Hoot” Gibson was all smiles after getting some stick-and-rudder time in a NASA F/A-18 Hornet mission support aircraft during a pilot proficiency flight with NASA Dryden research pilot Jim Smolka. Although Gibson had been a carrier-qualified Navy fighter pilot ...
