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Reporter mans cockpit for airshowpreview & admits he’s no ‘Top Gun’

PLANECRAZY!

ONE MINUTE, BLUE SKIES were above me and Long Island lay below. The next, my world fl ipped.

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.

Before we took off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, L.I., the Minnesota fl yboy assured me he’d never crashed and confi d-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 fl ying.

After the fi rst 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 sandwich I’d had for lunch 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

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PITTSBURGH — Yeah, hock-ey’s version of Kids “R” Us, thePittsburgh Penguins, certainly isreeling under the pressure ofthe Stanley Cup Finals.

Sidney Crosby is joking aboutGary Roberts’ 42nd birthday,which is only 22 birthdays morethan Crosby has celebrated. Afew minutes before, Crosby andEvgeni Malkin battled playfullyfor the puck near the side of thenet during practice, neitherwanting to be outdone by theother.

Coach Michel Therrien picksup a stick and tries to steer ashot past goalie Marc-AndreFleury, something the Senators,Rangers and Flyers couldn’t dowith regularity during the East-ern Conference playoffs.

The Penguins begin their firstStanley Cup Finals in 16 yearstonight in Detroit, against aproud, experienced and deepRed Wings team that is going forits fourth Cup in 11 seasons.

If the Penguins are awed bytheir opponent, the situation orthe circumstances, they’re notshowing it. Nor are they show-

ing their age, not with eightplayers who are 25 or youngercompared to the nine Red Wingswho are 35 or older.

“I don’t feel that group’snervous because we’re well pre-pared,” Therrien said yesterday.“I feel that group has a lot ofexcitement. It’s the same thingfor the coaches; I’m not ner-vous. We can’t wait to start.We’re ready to play.”

Sure, the Red Wings haveplayoff-hardened players whowere winning Cups before Pen-guins players such as Crosby,the 21-year-old Malkin and19-year-old Jordan Staal wereborn. So give the Red Wings theedge in experience, the Pen-guins the advantage in exuber-ance.

“This is not a group that’s toonervous, this is not a group thatfeels pressure,” Therrien said.“There’s two ways to handle thepressure, I believe: You feel thepressure or you put the pressureon. That’s our philosophy: Youput the pressure on, by the waywe’re playing.”

To do that, the Penguins wantto force the Red Wings to adjustand adapt to their speed and tal-ent, and not the other wayaround.

It’s all about us, the Penguinssaid, not about the Red Wings.

“We play our game, they dowhatever they do,” forwardJarkko Ruutu said. “There’s noreason to change things. Theymay change but we don’t worryabout their system too much.We’re not going to match thingsto the way they play.”

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Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (l.) gets a shove from teammate SergeiGonchar but can expect worse from Red Wings. Photo by AP

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