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Glenn
Glenn eyed a battered aircraft that still showed the black and white marks identifying it as a veteran of the invasion in Normandy. That Gooney Bird had definitely seen better times, but beggars couldn’t be choosers and with the raging scarcity of aircraft in airworthy condition, he would take anything with wings.
Just a few days ago, the required twenty-five-minute break between blocks had been slashed down to three minutes, against the objections of ground control. This had increased the number of planes in the air at any given time, but also stretched the capacity of the maintenance teams to extreme limits, turning finding a properly maintained aircraft into a veritable nightmare.
“Mind if I take that bird?” Glenn asked one of the mechanics on the airfield.
“If you have a
