See
http://www.observer.co.uk/travel/sto...418680,00.html for this irritating tosh. Mr Buckley (author), if you are reading this:-
(1) Have you really got a PPL?
(2) If so, did you actually write this stuff, or have you been sub-edited to oblivion?
(3) If you did write it, do you really think that a "plane" (arrrgh) stalls if you take your eye off the "speedo"? Did your instructor ever mention the words "angle of attack"?
(4) Do you really think that you recover a stall by dropping through the sky for long enough to go very fast and so to fly again?
(5) Do you habitually operate your Cessna engine at 10,000 rpm? If so, don't you find that your forward visibility is somewhat impaired by the cylinder heads popping out of the cowling?
(6) Do you intend to repeat your trick of flying into a small gap in clouds whilst exercising your VFR licence privileges?
(7) Do you really think that the Wright's Flyer was an "aeronatical cul-de-sac"? How do you suppose M Bleriot got his monoplane to go around corners? (clue: ask the Wright Brothers)
(8) Lastly, did you think it helpful to the pastime in which you claim to participate to run the usual "it's very dangerous, all the aircraft are made of string and crash everywhere" line?
If the rest of the articles in your series don't get any better than the first one, I think I'd prefer Jemima Khan as aviation columnist.
