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Reporter mans cockpit for airshow
preview & admits he’s no ‘Top Gun’
PLANE
CRAZY!
ONE MINUTE, BLUE SKIES were above
me and Long Island lay below. The next,
my world flipped.
The sky was where suburbia was sup-
posed to be — and screams echoed through
the cockpit of the plane. My screams.
“You like that?” asked Maj. John Klatt of
the Air National Guard when we were right
side up again.
“Yeah,” I told the sadist. “Wonderful.”
Klatt is a featured act in this weekend’s
airshow over Jones Beach State Park, an
aerial extravaganza that includes the U.S.
Navy’s famous Blue Angels and runs from
10 a.m. through 3 p.m. today and Sunday.
Klatt gave me a sneak preview of the 13-
minute routine he will perform — and I got
to see it from inside his two-seat Air Guard
Extra 300.
BeforewetookofffromRepublicAirport
in Farmingdale, L.I., the Minnesota flyboy
assured me he’d never crashed and confid-
ed that his insurance policy would make his
wife an instant millionaire if he did.
That should have been my cue to run.
“Do you have a name for your routine?”
I asked.
“Hard-core acrobatics,” he said.
The second cue to run.
Instead, I climbed aboard. And as soon
as we were airborne, Klatt suggested we
start off with a little upside down flying.
After the first 360-degree roll, my stom-
ach told my head I had made a terrible mis-
take. “I’m going to be sick,” I said, reaching
for the barf bag.
Klatt wasn’t done with me. As we round-
ed the Statue of Liberty Klatt promised
“a smooth, easy routine” before we head-
ed back.
Suddenly, the nose of the plane was
pointed straight up and we were fall-
ing, and falling, and falling. And
as we fell, the chicken cutlet
sandwichI’dhadforlunch
rose in my throat — to my
everlasting shame.
BY MIKE JACCARINO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Lady Liberty
looked great
until a flip had
our reporter
screaming
(inset). Good
thing he was
prepared with
a motion-
sickness bag.
Photos by Robert
Sabo/Daily News
want
more?
See the hilarious video of
our reporter Mike Jaccarino
screaming as the plane does
somersaults. Also, check out
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Penguins let Wings worryTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH — Yeah, hock-
ey’s version of Kids “R” Us, the
Pittsburgh Penguins, certainly is
reeling under the pressure of
the Stanley Cup Finals.
Sidney Crosby is joking about
Gary Roberts’ 42nd birthday,
which is only 22 birthdays more
than Crosby has celebrated. A
few minutes before, Crosby and
Evgeni Malkin battled playfully
for the puck near the side of the
net during practice, neither
wanting to be outdone by the
other.
Coach Michel Therrien picks
up a stick and tries to steer a
shot past goalie Marc-Andre
Fleury, something the Senators,
Rangers and Flyers couldn’t do
with regularity during the East-
ern Conference playoffs.
The Penguins begin their first
Stanley Cup Finals in 16 years
tonight in Detroit, against a
proud, experienced and deep
Red Wings team that is going for
its fourth Cup in 11 seasons.
If the Penguins are awed by
their opponent, the situation or
the circumstances, they’re not
showing it. Nor are they show-
ing their age, not with eight
players who are 25 or younger
compared to the nine Red Wings
who are 35 or older.
“I don’t feel that group’s
nervous because we’re well pre-
pared,” Therrien said yesterday.
“I feel that group has a lot of
excitement. It’s the same thing
for the coaches; I’m not ner-
vous. We can’t wait to start.
We’re ready to play.”
Sure, the Red Wings have
playoff-hardened players who
were winning Cups before Pen-
guins players such as Crosby,
the 21-year-old Malkin and
19-year-old Jordan Staal were
born. So give the Red Wings the
edge in experience, the Pen-
guins the advantage in exuber-
ance.
“This is not a group that’s too
nervous, this is not a group that
feels pressure,” Therrien said.
“There’s two ways to handle the
pressure, I believe: You feel the
pressure or you put the pressure
on. That’s our philosophy: You
put the pressure on, by the way
we’re playing.”
To do that, the Penguins want
to force the Red Wings to adjust
and adapt to their speed and tal-
ent, and not the other way
around.
It’s all about us, the Penguins
said, not about the Red Wings.
“We play our game, they do
whatever they do,” forward
Jarkko Ruutu said. “There’s no
reason to change things. They
may change but we don’t worry
about their system too much.
We’re not going to match things
to the way they play.”
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BEST OF SEVEN
Game 1: Tonight at Detroit
Game 2: Monday at Detroit
Game 3: Wednesday at Pittsburgh
Game 4: Sat., May 31 at Pittsburgh
Game 5: Mon., June 2 at Detroit*
Game 6: Wed., June 4 at Pittsburgh*
Game 7: Sat., June 7 at Detroit*
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STANLEY CUP FINALS
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