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Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project is a american film of genre Documentary with Harrison Ford
Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project (2014)
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Add to a movie listFlying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project is a 2014 independent documentary film about American aviator Bob Hoover and his seven decade aviation career. The film was directed by Kim Furst and features an original musical score Emmy Award winning composer David Cottrell. The title derives from the concept that Hoover spent his career flying on the "feathered edge" of the flight envelope, through his flight testing and air show flying.
The film stars Harrison Ford, Carroll Shelby, Gen. John. R. Dailey ("Jack"), Director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Clay Lacy, Burt Rutan, Dick Rutan, Medal of Honor recipient George E. Bud Day, air show pilot Sean D. Tucker, Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland (“Chick”), and Capt. Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, among others.
Hoover signed off on the film January 2014, with the words “The film captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don’t know how it could have been done any better.
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Harrison Ford
(Self - Interviewee)
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