Chapter 79
When the computerized navigation system rang a quiet chime to indicate the craft had reached a waypoint designating the beginning of the search zone, the pilot sighed and roused himself to make sure the big electro-optical cameras in the nose and equipment bays were on and functioning properly. The high flying U-2 "Dragon Lady" worked a search pattern north and south along the spine of the Rocky Mountains for a bit more than three hours, taking high resolution pictures of the mountain landscape below. When the computer decided it had stored enough pics of the area, the pilot took control of the aircraft and hauled the nose around until it was lined up on a heading back to Beale Air Force Base. He did a series of cockpit gymnastics, wiggling around and shrugging his shoulders to get some f
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