GR translation: jolts over a set of surprise points

[Mike Jing]

I'm leaning toward this as the correct interpretation on a suggestion from
somewhere else.

Thanks to all who responded.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:16 PM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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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