Piper Cub.
Posted on 08/05/2011 3:31:01 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
CHICAGO (AP) — Myrtle Rose was taking a short flight over suburban Chicago when the 75-year-old aviation enthusiast looked out her cockpit window to see two F-16 fighter jets. She assumed the military pilots were just slowing down to get a closer look at her antique plane.
It wasn't until she landed her 1941 Piper J-3 Cub that friends and the police told her the attention was much more serious — for straying into restricted airspace during a visit by President Barack Obama.
Rose . . . normally uses her computer to check for airspace restrictions, but it wasn't working properly.
"I hadn't flown in over a week," she said. "It was a beautiful afternoon." After some guests departed her home, she "just climbed in the airplane and left."
To make matters worse, she said, "I didn't have my radio on. I was just flying around."
On any other day, the brief flight would never have attracted notice. But Obama was in Chicago for a fundraiser marking his 50th birthday.
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Another NORAD representative suggested Rose had no business thinking that a military jet racing toward her would be in any way related to the cuteness of her plane.
"The biggest thing to keep in mind is that when F-16s come screaming up to you, they are probably trying to tell you something," spokeswoman Stacey Knott said.
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Rose, a Republican who said she did not vote for Obama, joked about mailing the president a note for his birthday.
"Oh, dear, maybe I should send him a belated birthday card and say, `You should have stayed home and Michelle baked you a birthday cake.'"
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Obviously she knows who the vice president is. Thus she would never harm obama.
More wisdom shared in her comment, than obama has shown in his entire time as president!
Gosh! And I thought I hated Obama. What did he ever do to that poor old gal to have her wish such a horrible fate on him?
Glad to see the Government is still protecting us from white Grannies 10 years after 9/11
Pretty cute for being 75 years old! Sounds like a wonderful Gal!
Hell, I’m amazed that the enemedia didn’t publish her address so she might get, “Flashmobbed.”
If the government did not oppress us, if the President was merely the Executor of Laws passed by a Congress of enumerated powers, there would be no need to protect the President from the citizens.
She is....
http://newsimages.emerald.synacor.com/ap_photos//ae307e0c-9b79-475a-9c61-531cb34f6a32.jpeg
Great smile!
“...her yard began filling with police cars.”
She wasn’t tazed or wrestled to the ground and there was no mention of her dog being shot. What a bunch of slackers!
yeah, I can see why they were worried, those old Piper cubs can carry a he** of a lot of ordinance./SAR
Lighten up, Francis...
Lighten up, Francis...
Fly me, Myrt.
Piper Cub.
Has nothing to do with the article...just trying to stir a pot.
“Lighten up, Francis...” ROFL Love that....
I only hope she enjoys her new digs...at Guantanamo....
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