Buzzed

Heading out for a pleasant spot of tiffin this afternoon with the good lady, her driving sedately along the sea road suddenly the car started to rattle and shake.  I was just thinking that the rear hatch must have fallen off as it went dark overhead.

A Chinook transport helicopter heading the exact direction as us was the cause of the kerfuffle.

I'm not going to estimate the height on here because if anyone asks me I'm going to say for all the world it was a safe and appropriate height for any training mission he was on. 

But he sure livened up our afternoon.

Good for him...

That sounds more pleasant than being scared out of your wits when a fighter jet goes over and you're standing at the top of a ravine with a running chain saw in your hands!

What's a tiffin? 

When there used to be an airshow in London ON we used to have fighter jets go over our farm at a very low height...once..one let loose with a sonic boom...it was loud.... 

Wait a minute.  If a tiffin is a spot of light entertainment, and you were going out for a spot of tiffin...does that mean you were going out for a spot of a spot of tiffin? 

alexoosthoek

Jonbouy

What's a tiffin?

It's colonial English for a spot of light refreshment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffin

Did you invite them to come along?

I would have but he didn't hang around.

alexoosthoek

Jonbouy

alexoosthoek

Jonbouy

What's a tiffin?

It's colonial English for a spot of light refreshment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffin

Did you invite them to come along?

I would have but he didn't hang around.

Perhaps you should not have told him you know Bapu

I think it was Bapu's people keeping an eye on me!

I used to work across the street from Miramar Naval Airbase in San Diego, California which is where they would have the airshows.  One perk was watching the Blue Angel precision flight team practice their show from our rooftop.  Well, let's just say that these fighter jocks like to have fun and rules like minimum height above the ground are for others.  While we were watching one jet fly straight up and doing barrel rolls, the four others snuck around behind the building and buzzed us flying really, really low (so low that I could see the tread on one tire).  We went from mostly silence to incredible noise instantly and there were a couple of soiled trousers as a result - lol!

Of course, we then got to watch them do it to other unsuspecting people atop other buildings as well so that was fun.

We live on the USAF flight path. they use an asphalt plant as their target. And when they do this "bombing run" approach they are moving fast and running with power up. When they come over it's very low..... you never hear the first one coming.

The Blue Angels also like their "gottcha" moment in the show they do. While you are focused on the jets over the runway doing those high speed passes within mere feet of each other, you attention is naturally diverted away from the one jet that has "disappeared" from the show.  This clown goes out and around, back behind the crowd..... then comes in ...I'm guessing 500' with the afterburners on and cruising about 550 mph, so again, you don't hear him until he's slightly past you, and the sweet sound of the afterburner hits you all at once..... hope you're not taking a drink out of your cup when that happens....

Living just a few miles from Nellis A F B, I occasionally get the big Hueys passing over the house. Even at a high altitude they can rattle your teeth. Three of them passed over once and I thought it was an earthquake.

I live over 2000 miles away from Mooch but he seems to somehow buzz overhead on a daily basis here
(or does he?)

Scary
(or is it?)

Yeah, Mooch is kind of big deal around here
(or Am he?)

Lightyear, Buzz!

I spent part of my youth in Tampa, just down the road (literally) from MacDill AFB where my dad worked.
This was the early 1960s and the sonic booms occurred often, every day. Those F 4 Phantoms could really move.