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Imagine being a new aircraft manufacturer and having Gene Cernan and Bob Hoover check out your airplane in one day.

By Mary F. Silitch

June 30, 2008

Imagine being a new aircraft manufacturer and having Gene Cernan and Bob Hoover check out your airplane in one day. It happened yesterday to Jim McCotter, president and CEO of Maverick Jets, at the Maverick booth (No. 3915) when the astronaut and the aerobatic pilot each tried out the pilot’s seat of the mockup of the sleek personal jet (there’s an airplane at Static Display No. 21, also). According to McCotter, Cernan “fell in love with the Maverick.”

NBAA Convention News caught Hoover at the booth and found that not only is he on the order book but he’s on the board of directors of Maverick and an advisor to the company. Hoover said, “As you know, I’m very careful about lending my name to any enterprise, but I’m privileged to be on the list. I visited the team, looked over the jet, flew it and tested it. I found out how delightful the plane is to fly. On landing, I visited with Jim and told him it had the most docile handling qualities of just about any airplane I’ve flown.”

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