[TPR] Check airframe JB..

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

Great photos...reminds me of the time JB and I were flying over the 
Sierra's....yea I survived. ;-]>
 
Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com





--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Pat Marrinan <pmarrinan at napavalley.edu> wrote:


>From: Pat Marrinan <pmarrinan at napavalley.edu>
>Subject: FW: AN "OH" MOMENT................
>To: "'Henry Kirk'" <henry.kirk at sbcglobal.net>, "stacy at browardbuilders.com" 
><stacy at browardbuilders.com>, "'kurthirtzer at comcast.net'" 
><kurthirtzer at comcast.net>
>Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 10:01 AM
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>>Talk about being in the right place at the right time (the photographer)...
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>>There I was just flying along, enjoying the flight...
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>>And what's so cool is they actually pay me to do this!
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>>Hmmm... What's that strange sound? Something feels different!
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>>Hey, why am I looking up?
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>>Whoa here. What the . . . . ? Controls aren't working.
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>>Time for a mirror check. ? Hey, where's the rest of my F- 15?
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>>Uh oh, it's over there. I think I've got a definite problem going on here.
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>>I gotta wonder, am I the first guy to ever experience 'cockpit-airframe 
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>>OK, enough is enough! I'm outta' here!  But first, the canopy has to go...
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>>OK, now it's my turn. I'm gonna be gone - soon as I find that idiot lower 
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>>This 'incident' caused the USAF to ground its fleet of F- 15's.
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>>How about the guy who took these pictures?  Just when it looks like it's going 
>>to be just another 'average day at the office'.  You never know!
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>>What caused the mid air break up?  The main "longeron" (stringer) behind the 
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