These planes all have popoff valves, designed to prevent overboost, but the flow dynamics are such that manifold pressure can seriously overshoot redline before the popoff valve opens.

[…] the Account Representative was choosing words neither dismissive nor inviting, neither terse nor intrusive; he was composing a carefully casual face, narrowing salutatory options toward a sort of landlocked “Halloo” that contained already an acknowledgement of distance and an easy willingness to preserve same.

this time last year

Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.