GR translation: jolts over a set of surprise points

[James Kyllo]

there is a secondary nod here to railway points:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1242&bih=585&q=railway+points&oq=railway+points&gs_l
over which trains jolt.

J

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Mike Jing <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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