There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are now truly no old, bold pilots:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/26/top-pilot-who-stole-plane-to-escape-wwii-prison-camp-dies.html
As the article mentions, shot down and captured over Germany in WWII, he stole one of their planes to escape. He flew the chase plane for Chuck Yeager's X-1 flights up to and breaking the sound barrier for the first time. After Yeager would burn out all the rocket fuel in the X-1, he and Hoover would "dog fight" on the way down to the lake bed, seeing who could get in a firing position on the other.
I got to see Hoover perform a couple of times, doing this "engine out" routine in a Rockwell Shrike Commander:
Once I asked my Dad what the most impressive air show display he had seen was. Completely unprompted, he stated he'd seen Bob Hoover conducting a F-100 demo. Hoover had the Super Sabre off the ground, landing gear retracted, and flipped over onto its back flying upside down by the halfway point on the runway.
As entertaining as the Shrike Commander engine's out display was, he used to also do air shows in his ugly yellow P-51 Mustang with Rockwell painted down the side.
Thanks Bob. Vaya con Dios!