"David Drake - Fallen Angels" - читать интересную книгу автора (Drake David)

Gordon had read the book. Come to that, Gordon read a lot of books, but books don't mean much. No
one ever learned anything out of a book, anyway. This was why they always teamed a newbie with an
old pro. Hands-on learning. The problem with on-the-job training for this job was that there was not a
hell of a lot of room for trial and error. Alex moved the stick gently, and felt the ship respond. Not
vacuum anymore! He banked and brought them up level, feeling the air rushing past just outside the skin.
His eyes danced across the gauges. Here. There. Not reading them. Just a glance to see if something was
wrong, or if something had changed since the last glance. Dynamic air temperature. Stagnation air
temperature. The Mach number needle sprang to life, leaped from zero to absurdity, then hunted across
the dial. A grin stretched itself across his face. No blues now. He hadn't forgotten at all; not a damned
thing.
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"What is funny?" Gordon demanded.



"Old war-horse heard the trumpet again. Now it's your turn. Take the stick." Fun was fun, but it was
time for the kid to wrap his hands around the real thing. There was only so much you could do in a
simulator. "There. Feel it?"



"Uh . . ." Gordon pulled back slightly on the copilot's stick. He looked uncertain.



He hadn't felt anything. "Take over," Alex growled. "You're flying the ship now. Can't you tell?"



"Well . . ." Another tentative move at the controls.



Piranha wobbled. "Hey! Yeah!"



"Good. Look, it's hard to describe, but the ship will tell you how she's doing if you really listen. I don't
mean you should forget the gauges. Keep scanning them; they're your eyes and ears. But you've got to
listen with your hands and feet and ass, too. Make the ship an extension of your entire body. Do you feel
it? That rush? That's air moving past us at five miles per second.Newton 's not flying us anymore. You
are."