Ill-Considered Training Some maneuvers, such as fully developed stalls in transport category airplanes, should be left to test pilots.

THE TEXAS WEATHER WAS just about perfect for the day's training mission in the Beaumont area. Visibility was 7 miles, the wind easterly at 9 knots, the skies cloudless below 12,000 feet and the temperature 27C. It was Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, and the Hawker Siddeley HS-125-700A maneuvering overhead...

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