One of the unintended consequences of the Second World War was that I learned to fly an aeroplane at the age of 17.
Having been caught short of pilots in 1940, the Air Ministry was determined that this shouldn't happen again. I spent the summer of 1963 happily airborne at Government expense.
Part of the training involved handling an aircraft in a stall - the time when the speed of the aircraft falls below the necessary minimum to sustain flight and it falls out of the sky. With d...
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Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media.