The 2,000-foot buzz

Posted on February 12, 2008 | Comments Off on The 2,000-foot buzz

Used to be a buzz was when an aircraft flew over a few hundred feet above the ground. So it seems a little silly to call a Russian Tupolev bomber’s overflight of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean a "buzz" when the lumbering, 55-year-old propeller-driven bomber stayed 2,000 feet above the steel beach. Or is it just a wire service’s attempt to embellish a story of the so-called new Cold War?

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0 responses to “The 2,000-foot buzz”

  1. SnoopyTheGoon's avatar SnoopyTheGoon | February 12, 2008 at 2:17 pm |

    Jayzus, you have done the post I planned to write sometime tomorrow. By the way, 55 years are not necessary true, see here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95
    But yes, with max. speed of 9500 kmh in is an easy prey for F-18. Still, quite frisky for a turboprop.
    And I thought to offer “mooing” for “buzzing” 😉

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | February 12, 2008 at 4:01 pm |

    I think you mean “mooning,” though there certainly is something cowlike about those old bombers. The wiki entry says the first one of its design flew in 1953, but maybe not the one flying over the Nimitz. Some B-52s are almost that old. Did you know that Nimitz was a Texan? Just a little aside.

  3. SnoopyTheGoon's avatar SnoopyTheGoon | February 13, 2008 at 1:10 am |

    No no, “mooing” it was, definitely a cow-like machine. And I see I have added another zero to the speed.