Who's the best pilot I ever saw?

[BootinUp]

[fierywoman]

1. Solly who landed the plane in the Hudson River.

[BootinUp]

2. Not bad, not bad at all. Nt

[DashOneBravo]

12. I loved that movie

[First Speaker]

3. I actually saw James Stewart once...

...at Kate Hepburn's home in Saybrook, CT. Never met him--unlike Cary Grant--but did see him around the place. So I guess he'd be the choice...and he was a helluva pilot...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. A long time ago, as in 1973,

a landing on a commercial airline that was so smooth I could not tell when we actually touched the ground. Now THAT was a pilot.

[Snackshack]

5. Taking into consideration.

Knowledge of tactical air engagement was non existent (literally on the job training) at the time and the very sketchy machines they were performing in my vote goes to Oswald Boelcke. His rules for aerial combat are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them still taught to this day.

[flotsam]

6. Who's the best?

A friend of mine named Dan McCue has a near miss while flying a Yak-I think this guy is the best.

[Girard442]

7. Bob Hoover. Used to do aerobatic routines with the engines switched off.

Non-pilots applauded. Pilots just stood there with their mouths hanging open.

[Lars39]

11. Had to look him up....wow, what a life!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover

[malthaussen]

8. That I ever saw? Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8. n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Jerrie Mock!

[Major Nikon]

13. Not many know about her accomplishments

Pretty amazing story

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. It really is!

[kairos12]

10. Doug Geeting. Flew into the Denali region twice with him. Land and take off from glaciers.

[Aristus]

15. The pilot of my flight from San Antonio to Seattle in December, 1994.

We flew through the worst turbulence I've ever experienced. Our flight trajectory was not dissimilar to the path of a roller coaster. There were occasions when we would hit a bank and get knocked forward or sideways enough to make the passengers strain against the seatbelts (which the pilot ordered fastened for around ninety minutes while this all went on...). There were numerous startled shouts and screams of fear when this would happen.

We eventually got through it and into clear, unroiled air. There were audible sighs of relief throughout the cabin, and we later made an uneventful landing at Sea-Tac airport.

That pilot must have been a wizard at the controls.