"NY"  wrote in message
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> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:16:24 -0000
>> "NY"  wrote:
>>
>>> I read a very good aeroplane-based thriller.
>>
>> Michael Crichton's Airframe to be precise. Good precis.
>
> Ah, I wondered if anyone would work out which book it was from the
> description.

I love that scene near the end when the test pilot is demonstrating to the
journalist what happened, and warns her that it will be very bumpy, but she
tries to make out that she doesn't need air-sickness tablets. He throws the
plane around and as it porpoises, she pukes, unlike everyone else who has
taken counter-measures. And then he demonstrates that all he has to do is
take his hands off the controls and the autopilot instantly corrects - so no
design fault in control surfaces or autopilot.

And the scenes with the male reporter are instructive: he knows nothing at
all about the subject but he just repeats whatever the interviewee has said,
as a question, as if to imply scorn and derision at the answer, and put the
interviewee on the defensive. One trick, but it works well. And he is
parachuted in to ask the scripted questions, get the reactions he wants, and
then buggers off to the next assignment.

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