Buzzing

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On 19 Nov 2004 02:17:41 -0800, (Ramapriya) wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

I was at a cocktail party / family reunion (not my family!) where the
old guy reminisced about the hostess's uncle who knocked a brick off
the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

*That's* buzzing!

NAH! Buzzing is taking a P51 up a country road at 8AM on a Sunday
morning at 60 inches and 3000RPM so low that the prop tips are almost
leaving a swath through the pine tree tops, then overflying a church and
cemetery at 50 feet; then pulling it off the deck into a climbing slow
roll, disappearing in a hurry before some sharp eyed character down
there had time to get the numbers.
Then after you've managed to scare the hell out of half of the
congregation at the Haywood Baptist Church in Haywood Virginia that
Sunday morning, Reader's Digest comes along and gets another 23 million
people in 17 languages, Braille, and large print, to sit on their butts
on their toilets all over the world (that's where everybody keeps
Reader's Digest I think) and read all about it without you getting
arrested.
Now THAT'S buzzing!!! :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
for email; take out the trash

Treetops?!?! Come on, Dudley, you gotta get LOW to consider it buzzing!
:-)

Shawn


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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On 19 Nov 2004 02:17:41 -0800, (Ramapriya) wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

I was at a cocktail party / family reunion (not my family!) where the
old guy reminisced about the hostess's uncle who knocked a brick off
the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

*That's* buzzing!

NAH! Buzzing is taking a P51 up a country road at 8AM on a Sunday morning
at 60 inches and 3000RPM so low that the prop tips are almost leaving a
swath through the pine tree tops, then overflying a church and cemetery at
50 feet; then pulling it off the deck into a climbing slow roll,
disappearing in a hurry before some sharp eyed character down there had
time to get the numbers.
Then after you've managed to scare the hell out of half of the
congregation at the Haywood Baptist Church in Haywood Virginia that Sunday
morning, Reader's Digest comes along and gets another 23 million people in
17 languages, Braille, and large print, to sit on their butts on their
toilets all over the world (that's where everybody keeps Reader's Digest I
think) and read all about it without you getting arrested.
Now THAT'S buzzing!!! :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
for email; take out the trash

"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
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Treetops?!?! Come on, Dudley, you gotta get LOW to consider it
buzzing! :-)

Shawn

There was a building in the way!! :-))

One witness had the airplane BELOW the tree line coming up the road.
:-)))
D

You know Shawn, I guess I should qualify this a bit better as I didn't
make a career of breaking FAA regulations :-)))
.. This particular "buzz job" was a once in a lifetime shot. I had very
good reason to be there and to be doing it.
I was attending the funeral of a fighter pilot friend that I had missed
attending at that cemetery sixteen years earlier.......and for this
particular friend, I would do it again tomorrow :-)
D

"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
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Treetops?!?! Come on, Dudley, you gotta get LOW to consider it
buzzing! :-)

Shawn


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On 19 Nov 2004 02:17:41 -0800, (Ramapriya) wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

I was at a cocktail party / family reunion (not my family!) where
the
old guy reminisced about the hostess's uncle who knocked a brick off
the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

*That's* buzzing!

NAH! Buzzing is taking a P51 up a country road at 8AM on a Sunday
morning at 60 inches and 3000RPM so low that the prop tips are almost
leaving a swath through the pine tree tops, then overflying a church
and cemetery at 50 feet; then pulling it off the deck into a climbing
slow roll, disappearing in a hurry before some sharp eyed character
down there had time to get the numbers.
Then after you've managed to scare the hell out of half of the
congregation at the Haywood Baptist Church in Haywood Virginia that
Sunday morning, Reader's Digest comes along and gets another 23
million people in 17 languages, Braille, and large print, to sit on
their butts on their toilets all over the world (that's where
everybody keeps Reader's Digest I think) and read all about it
without you getting arrested.
Now THAT'S buzzing!!! :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
for email; take out the trash

Yep. There're times and places, you know?

Shawn
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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You know Shawn, I guess I should qualify this a bit better as I didn't
make a career of breaking FAA regulations :-)))
. This particular "buzz job" was a once in a lifetime shot. I had very
good reason to be there and to be doing it.
I was attending the funeral of a fighter pilot friend that I had missed
attending at that cemetery sixteen years earlier.......and for this
particular friend, I would do it again tomorrow :-)
D

"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
news
Treetops?!?! Come on, Dudley, you gotta get LOW to consider it buzzing!
:-)

Shawn


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On 19 Nov 2004 02:17:41 -0800, (Ramapriya) wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

I was at a cocktail party / family reunion (not my family!) where the
old guy reminisced about the hostess's uncle who knocked a brick off
the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

*That's* buzzing!

NAH! Buzzing is taking a P51 up a country road at 8AM on a Sunday
morning at 60 inches and 3000RPM so low that the prop tips are almost
leaving a swath through the pine tree tops, then overflying a church and
cemetery at 50 feet; then pulling it off the deck into a climbing slow
roll, disappearing in a hurry before some sharp eyed character down
there had time to get the numbers.
Then after you've managed to scare the hell out of half of the
congregation at the Haywood Baptist Church in Haywood Virginia that
Sunday morning, Reader's Digest comes along and gets another 23 million
people in 17 languages, Braille, and large print, to sit on their butts
on their toilets all over the world (that's where everybody keeps
Reader's Digest I think) and read all about it without you getting
arrested.
Now THAT'S buzzing!!! :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
for email; take out the trash

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:18:46 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

You know Shawn, I guess I should qualify this a bit better as I didn't
make a career of breaking FAA regulations :-)))
. This particular "buzz job" was a once in a lifetime shot. I had very
good reason to be there and to be doing it.
I was attending the funeral of a fighter pilot friend that I had missed
attending at that cemetery sixteen years earlier.......and for this
particular friend, I would do it again tomorrow :-)
D

"I understand" that chasing snowmobiles and 4-wheelers violating on
state land is interesting. I can't do it in the Deb though...It has
those great big numbers on the side. :-))

I have circled a bunch of them at minimum "legal" altitude and watched
them run for cover . They must have thought I was from the Department
of Natural Resources. Too bad they don't realize they stand out like a
sore thumb in all that brush during the winter. :-))

I once saw a B-17 do a really good imitation of the North, by North
West scene :-)) and I've seen the video tape shot from the ground.

Now THAT was a buzz job! An IMPRESSIVE buzz job!
He may not have been as fast as the P-51, but he sure was *big* and
*loud*.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
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Treetops?!?! Come on, Dudley, you gotta get LOW to consider it
buzzing! :-)

Shawn


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On 19 Nov 2004 02:17:41 -0800, (Ramapriya) wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

I was at a cocktail party / family reunion (not my family!) where
the
old guy reminisced about the hostess's uncle who knocked a brick off
the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

*That's* buzzing!

NAH! Buzzing is taking a P51 up a country road at 8AM on a Sunday
morning at 60 inches and 3000RPM so low that the prop tips are almost
leaving a swath through the pine tree tops, then overflying a church
and cemetery at 50 feet; then pulling it off the deck into a climbing
slow roll, disappearing in a hurry before some sharp eyed character
down there had time to get the numbers.
Then after you've managed to scare the hell out of half of the
congregation at the Haywood Baptist Church in Haywood Virginia that
Sunday morning, Reader's Digest comes along and gets another 23
million people in 17 languages, Braille, and large print, to sit on
their butts on their toilets all over the world (that's where
everybody keeps Reader's Digest I think) and read all about it
without you getting arrested.
Now THAT'S buzzing!!! :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
for email; take out the trash

"Roger" wrote in message
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I once saw a B-17 do a really good imitation of the North, by North
West scene :-)) and I've seen the video tape shot from the ground.

Now THAT was a buzz job! An IMPRESSIVE buzz job!
He may not have been as fast as the P-51, but he sure was *big* and
*loud*.

Big and loud is good.
Fish Salmon had a great buzz job once on Okinawa while flying solo
position with the Thunderbirds. You can't go mach 1 in the U.S during a
show for obvious reasons, but nobody said anything about Okinawa!
Fish brought his F100 in from the ocean during his opening pass at the
Thunderbird's show there sneaking in at about 50 feet in max AB going
super just as he passed right over the crowd from the blind side.
The TB alum STILL talk about that pass whenever the old timers get
together at an O Club somewhere to share a few........memories! :-)
Dudley

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"Roger" wrote in message
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I once saw a B-17 do a really good imitation of the North, by North
West scene :-)) and I've seen the video tape shot from the ground.

Now THAT was a buzz job! An IMPRESSIVE buzz job!
He may not have been as fast as the P-51, but he sure was *big* and
*loud*.

Big and loud is good.
Fish Salmon had a great buzz job once on Okinawa while flying solo
position with the Thunderbirds. You can't go mach 1 in the U.S during a
show for obvious reasons, but nobody said anything about Okinawa!
Fish brought his F100 in from the ocean during his opening pass at the
Thunderbird's show there sneaking in at about 50 feet in max AB going
super just as he passed right over the crowd from the blind side.
The TB alum STILL talk about that pass whenever the old timers get
together at an O Club somewhere to share a few........memories! :-)
Dudley

This is all kid stuff. Col. Robert Morgan did a knife edge with the
Memphis Belle B-17 between the City Building and Courthouse in Asheville,
NC, his hometown. A whistleblower in the City Building reported the
incident and soon found that he had made a big mistake for tattling on the
war hero.

I have circled a bunch of them at minimum "legal" altitude and watched
them run for cover .

A month ago I asked the KPSM tower for permission to tour Great Bay at
600 feet so I could look over my house. Since there was no one on the
water, I went down to about 100 feet, but being an anal type I bumped
up to 600 to go over the house and trees, and I stayed at that
altitude while crossing a little peninsula to the north. I didn't want
to go higher because I couldn't talk to Pease with my handheld radio
while down low, and I didn't want to get near pattern altitude and
scare someone.

When I got home, my daughter began to tell me about this Piper Cub
that had buzzed the house and then crossed the road to the peninsula
so low that it actually *went between the trees*, and had the
high-topped van that was passing at about that time been on the road,
the Cub would have hit it.

I heard her out because I was sure that she was speaking of another
Cub that is known to do buzz jobs of the bay, looking for eagles, but
in the end I realized she was talking about me. So here is a person
with superlative vision and lots of experience judging distances and
vectors on water. Yet she was drawing 600 feet of altitude down to
below 60 feet, and in her enthusiasm to about 10 feet.

How likely is it that someone can read the numbers at 600 feet?


all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Roger" wrote in message

I once saw a B-17 do a really good imitation of the North, by North
West scene :-)) and I've seen the video tape shot from the ground.

Where was that? I was standing behind the copilot in such a flight, in the
northwest in 1995. In fact, I won't even mention what airplane it was by
request of the engineer, after the flight, suggested that maybe none of that
happened. They had a whole bunch of jumpers go out the back door (which
had been removed prior to takeoff) and spent about half an hour buzzing the
drop zone.

Took the ride with my grandfather, who hadn't flown in a B-17 since he was
shot down over Schweinfurt. I don't remember ever seeing him smile so much.
After the flight he shook the pilot's hand and they exchanged autographs.

-c