Duke Field, Eglin AFB Complex“S
o how do I log this?” The sensor operator perched next to the pilot in a darkened, soundproofed cinder-block building at Eglin’s Auxiliary Field #3, his fingers poised over a keyboard. The pilot kept his eyes on the screen before him which was showing nothing but Caribbean white caps and a school of dolphins at the moment. “Systems check—open water—long range,” the pilot mumbled into the microphone in front of his mouth, “authority: CG, 96th Test Wing.”
“What’s General Mills doing snooping around Cuba,” the sensor operator sniggered, “looking for a new place to open a cereal factory?”
“Focus,” said the pilot as he brought the RQ-4 Global Hawk onto a heading to overfly Cayo Piedra at 10,000 feet AGL on a southwest to northeast pass parallel to the Cuban co
