Buzzing

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

Ramapriya

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!

(If true.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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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.

Hey, I've got a chimney I'm not using...send him this way, wouldja? :

My grandfather's aircrew received a brand new B-17 on their way to the ETO
(via Greenland...it was taken from them in Scotland and became Outhouse
Mouse) and buzzed the pilot or copilot's farm. The propwash blew chickens
helter skelter and knocked over the grain silo.

-c

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:41:54 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:

the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

Hey, I've got a chimney I'm not using...send him this way, wouldja? :

I suspect the aircraft has long since bit the dust, as has the pilot.

(On second thoughts, I believe the plane was a P-47.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:41:54 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:

the chimney of the family house, buzzing it with a P-51 in 1945 or
thereabouts.

Hey, I've got a chimney I'm not using...send him this way, wouldja?
:

I suspect the aircraft has long since bit the dust, as has the pilot.

(On second thoughts, I believe the plane was a P-47.)

If it was a Jug , it would have taken out more than a brick :-)

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
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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

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

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

Shawn


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
nk.net...

"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
ink.net...
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
nk.net...

"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