Buzzing

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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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.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Ramapriya wrote:

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

Flying very low at relatively high speed. For a typical "buzz job", you would
dive at the object you wanted to buzz, level off a few feet above the highest
point there, fly over it, and climb rapidly. It's a dangerous maneuver due to
the risk of getting too low and hitting something and the risk that you might
get distracted during the climb out, let the speed bleed off too far, and stall.

Many of the idiots who kill themselves buzzing pull back real
hard and get an accelerated stall and snap-roll into the ground. Seems
to be some shortcoming in their training and/or understanding of angle
of attack.

Only two types of pilots do buzz jobs; 1) professionals who are practicing or
getting paid to do low level aerobatics, and 2) fools.

Yup.

Dan

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