So, can a Piper Cub divebomb and then scoot back up to 8000 feet? (rhetorical question /off)
My (limited) Cub time was somewhat more sedate.
More seriously, people who horse around in airplanes like this make the vast majority of GA pilots look bad, and it's not right. Like that clown who shut down DC last month. Sheesh. I was glad to see AOPA come out with that full-page ad in USA Today saying so.
In retrospect, I'm beginning to think it was maybe a Cessna. And I distinctly remember seeing the registration number boldly printed on the aft fuselage. I just could never get a fix on it to read it. Based on the Skyhawk's climb rate, that's about right. Defintely up to about 8000' and then over, to every bit of 100'. The guy seen me standing there staring at him too. And boy was he sharp, because he'd veer away and the building would obscure him. I'd back up to minimise the obscuration by the building, and catch sight of him again, and then he'd bank off and then climb until he was a dot. Then he'd make off like he was flying away, and next thing you know you could hear the drone of that engine coming in from high above. After some acrobatic maneuvers, I swear the decent was just about vertical and he'd pull out in the absolute last second. If I was the guy in the passanger seat I'd have soiled my pants in every way possible for sure. And this was going on at like 2 A.M.
I spoke with Phil Boyer about the idiot who flew over the White House in a 152. They intercepted him and brought him back to Frederick - which is where the AOPA (& Boyer) is based. Phil was so pissed off - he said that this idiot ruined about a year of work that the AOPA had done.
Then - the 14 year old who stole the 152 and now this drunk kid who stole a 172.
It's like an epidemic of idiots.
PS... I fly VERY agressively and have never had a Cub UP to 8000 feet. Cubs are happiest at 100-500' AGL.