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Old 6th Oct 2011, 17:12
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Uncle Clandestino's quiz time!

Unfortunately, as the aeroplane drops from under the pilot and its nose dips earthward, the pilot's "instinctive" reaction will be to haul back all the harder on the stick. If his imagination works with the faulty images, if he images that the stick is the airplane's up-and-down control, he can hardly help hauling back on the stick. This instinctive reaction will be especially impulsive and uncontrollable if the pilot has failed to sense the coming of the stall, and the stall takes him by surprise.

And that is the real danger of stalling: this faulty reaction to the stall, rather than the stall itself. It is quite rare that a pilot is kiled simply because he stalled. But it happens with tragic monotony that a pilot is killed because, stalled when he did not expected it, he either fails to recognize the stall for what it is, or fails to control that impulsive desire to haul back on the stick: he clamps the stick back against his stomach in a terrified cramplike effort to hold the aeroplane up, and thereby makes the stall worse or converts it into spin.
Questions:
1. Who wrote that and when?
2. What was the warning about technology and nature, made by the famous writer, who met his doom while flying an F-5?
3. What is written in Ecc. 1:9?
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