With a 200-foot coiling and a half-mile mile visibility for a dark early morning flight, the company's senior vice president sat beside me in the Twin Bonanza. My wife of many years, the mother of my eight children, was hitching a ride in the back. Daylight was almost an hour away. Positive rate of climb, gear up. As the landing gear started to retract, the gear sound stopped, and total darkness. After the initial "What-the...," I snatched the pen light hanging by a cord around my neck, twisted the on-off switch and placed the cold metal tube between my teeth, pointing the flashlight beam at the basic six gauges. So far so good, we're going up, airspeed was good, and we were on heading. My wife commented from the back, "Dark in here isn't it?"
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机译：该公司的高级副总裁坐在200英尺高的飞机上，能看见半个清晨的半英里，因此，他在Twin Bonanza中坐在我旁边。我多年的妻子，是我的八个孩子的母亲，正坐在后面兜风。日光已近一个小时了。爬升的正速率，准备好。当起落架开始缩回时，起落架声音停止，并完全熄灭。最初的“ What ...”之后，我用一根绳子将挂在脖子上的笔灯抓了一下，拧开了开关，将冷金属管放在了牙齿之间，将手电筒的光束对准了基本的六个仪表。到目前为止，我们一直在前进，空速很好，我们正在前进。我的妻子从后面评论说：“这里不是很暗吗？”
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