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75-year-old pilot explains encounter with F-16s
Associated Press ^ | Friday, August 5, 2011 5:43 PM EDT | DON BABWIN

Posted on 08/05/2011 3:31:01 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

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21 posted on 08/05/2011 4:51:52 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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It is a cute plane and a cute grandma-type too.


22 posted on 08/05/2011 5:12:01 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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30 miles from Chicago!? How big a damn no fly zone do they create for the idiot oblabla?


23 posted on 08/05/2011 5:30:56 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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Love the teddy bear in the jumpseat. She’s pretty spry for 75 years young! Bet she throws a mean party!


24 posted on 08/05/2011 5:34:01 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Sequoyah101

I dunno, those standoff AGMs that come standard on a Cub can probably cover it easy.


25 posted on 08/05/2011 5:35:06 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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Let’s see. A J3 puts around at 60 or so kts. I wonder what the stall speed of an F-16 is. Then too, where was she in relation to the “child”???? In what part of the TFR area was she?


26 posted on 08/05/2011 6:12:19 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
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She'd better watch it.

"What's that you say, Myrtle? Your social security checks havent been coming in for the past 4 months?"

27 posted on 08/05/2011 6:25:17 PM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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No way she is 75 in that picture! No way! This had to have been taken decades ago! She is a knock-out! I like her co-pilot sitting in the plane!


28 posted on 08/05/2011 6:59:05 PM PDT by rawhide
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Myrtle Rose stands by her 1941 Piper J-3 Cub, which she flew into restricted airspace while Barack Obama visited Chicago (AP)

29 posted on 08/05/2011 7:01:33 PM PDT by rawhide
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Myrtle Rose, 75, shows off a photo of herself performing as a wing walker in the 1970s in the airplane hangar at her home on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, in South Barrington, Ill.

30 posted on 08/05/2011 7:15:22 PM PDT by rawhide
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