Day 17: Nothing like some life-or-death crisis, Suze my old girl, to make you rethink your lunch order. (Not ‘launch’ order — we’ve done that gag.) That’s just the way things work, when you’re—I’m sitting at the controls of one of these beasts. We’re not in some ancient, petroleum-burning carriage, and it should go without saying that we’re not in Napier, N. Z. any more — hope the girl from Kansas doesn’t mind me nicking her phrase. (Her…