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Published Saturday, August 06, 2011 12:06 AM
Pilot, 75, explains F-16 encounter
By DON BABWIN
Associated Press
CHICAGO -- 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.
'I thought, "Oh, well, they're just looking at how cute
The blue-and-yellow plane had won a best-in-class award at the Oshkosh Air Show, a huge annual gathering in Wisconsin.
Rose, who has been flying since the mid-1960s and even performed as a wing walker until five or six years ago, said the jet pilots could not have been more considerate.
Though she never saw their faces -- hard to do, she said, since she was puttering along at about 60 mph and the jets were doing what she figured was about 300 mph -- she was impressed with the way the pilot who pulled in front of her kept his distance to avoid rattling her wood-and-fabric plane.
"He was very respectful," she said.
Rose returned to land on the grass airstrip at her home in the affluent South Barrington area.
Once she was on the ground, some friends rushed over and told her that the rendezvous had nothing to do with the good looks of the plane named Winston.
After the aircraft was in the hangar, her yard began filling with police cars.
Rose said she filled out a report with the Federal Aviation Administration, including a note describing how she mistakenly believed the jets were circling to admire
