Set your controls for the heart of the sun

The Electra's instruments did not quite agree. First, the altimeter showed that they were high enough for the trusty old plane's engines to be gasping for air, and the last they could remember they had been over the ocean.
Second, the airspeed indicator showed that the plane was going at normal speed, but the "ground" below them was not. It was slowing down, finally to stop and start moving in the opposite direction.

"It's accelerating," Amelia observed. Fred just nodded. Then the same thought seemed to occur to them both, and they turned as one to see the sun rise behind the plane. Only it wasn't the sun - it was the great fire of whatever it was that propelled the enormous mass below them. With the two vehicles following the same course, and the large one acellerating, it did not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the little plane was going to be engulfed by that vast fire before long.

1. Amelia guns the throttle and tries to outfly the starship.
2. She veers left or right, hoping to at least get away from the worst of the heat.
3. Even though the Electra seems to be at maximum operating altitude, she tries to rise further.
4. She looks for a flat spot to attempt a landing.

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