GRGR(28): Pirate's airplane

[Jeremy Osner]

A few things:

"The barred field of sight gives Pirate twinges of memory in his neck
muscles." I'm totally in the dark about the meaning of this sentence --
it's just words to me. I understand that the airplane is vintage, so
maybe the same model as Pirate learned to fly in; but why "barred field
of sight"? why "neck muscles"?

What is "War Emergency Power"?

Is "Jug" a nickname for this P-47 model of airplane?

What is an Immelmann?

The description of Pirate's manoever -- "he starts his roll a hair too
slow, just this side of one-thirty, and nearly stalls it, jolts over a
set of surprise points" -- reminds me of nothing so much as Bach's
*Jonathan Livingston Seagull*. Anyone else make this connection?

Jeremy