2013, Bob Hoover performs a barrel roll in the Rockwell Sabreliner business jet. He was 91 years old. Unfortunately, he died on Oct 25th, 2016. RIP Bob Hoover. Hoover flew Spitfires in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and was shot down in 1944 off the coast of France. He was held for over a year in a German POW camp before eventually escaping and flying to safety in a stolen enemy aircraft. He then worked as a United States Air Force and civilian test pilot after the war, fl