GR translation: jolts over a set of surprise points

[David Morris]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkIF3jvwIY

On Monday, August 24, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Highly technical jargon relating to plane acrobatics, like almost every
> word in the second half of this paragraph.  Not translatable into
> non-flight jargon in any language without becoming deadly technical, unless
> your language has such colorful parallel jargon.
>
> David
>
> On Monday, August 24, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> V619.16-32   Well, it’s an older Jug, one with a greenhouse canopy. The
>> barred field of sight gives Pirate twinges of memory in his neck muscles.
>> The plane seems permanently out of trim to him, though he still fiddles now
>> and then with different tabs. Right now he’s trying the War Emergency Power
>> to see how it works, even though there seems to be no War, no Emergency,
>> keeping an eye on the panel, where RPMs, manifold pressure, and
>> cylinder-head temperature are all nudging their red lines. He eases it down
>> and flies on, and presently is trying a slow roll over Celle, then a loop
>> over Brunswick, then, what the hell, an Immelmann over Magdeburg. On his
>> back, molars aching in a grin, 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—finish it as an ordinary loop or go for the Immelmann?—already
>> reaching for ailerons, forget the damn rudder, a spin isn’t worth worrying
>> about . . . but at the last second does give the pedal just a touch anyway,
>> a minor compromise (I’m nearly forty, good God, is it happening to me too?)
>> and rolls himself upright again. It had to
>> be the Immelmann.
>>
>> What are "surprise points"?
>>
>
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