Table of Contents
511 Words
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Cast Of Characters
Chapter One—Daedalus
California—Several Years In The Past
Yosemite Park—Two Years Later
Coronado, California—The Gryphon
Coronado, California—Gryphon Drops
Equatorial Pacific—Slingshot
Figure 1—The Slingshot Space Launch Loop
Equatorial Pacific—Howland Island
Equatorial Pacific—Baker Island
Equatorial Pacific—Fred Noonan Skyport (Jarvis Island)
Equatorial Pacific—Gryphon Flight
Figure 2—Howland, Baker, Jarvis & Kiribati Islands— Flight of the Gryphon
Kiritimati Island
Figure 3—Kiritimati Island –Gryphon splashdown
Daedalus—Finale
Chapter Two—Daedalus Leo
Figure 4—Gryphon and pallet with Tiger Baily in leo in an uncontrolled tumble.
Low Earth Orbit
Coronado—San Diego—Several Days Earlier
Coronado—Gryphon-10
Coronado—Max
Slingshot—Equatorial Pacific
LEO—Unmanned Drop
Coronado—Manned Drop Prep
Howland & Baker Islands—Prelaunch
Amelia Earhart Skyport—Prelaunch
Figure 5—Gryphon and pallet on the fred noonanskyport platform ready to receive a rider.
Amelia Earhart Skyport—Launch
Slingshot Rail—Coupled
Figure 6—Gryphon and pallet with tiger baily approaching LEO.
LEO—Manned
LEO—Disaster
LEO—Rendezvous
LEO—Miss
Figure 7—Spare Gryphon on pallet with oxygen tanks and makeshift piping.
LEO—Orbit Shift
Figure 8—Orbital paths as they pass over the u.s. and Mexico of the original orbit, the resulting orbit after the accident, and the final orbit following the correction.
Figure 9—Orbital paths from Kinshasa to Australia of the original orbit, the resulting orbit after the accident, and the final orbit following the correction.
Figure 10—Orbital paths over the Pacific of the original orbit, the resulting orbit after the accident, and the final orbit following the correction over the Pacific.
LEO—Manned Drop
Houston Flight Control—Landing
Figure 11—Gryphon with Tiger Baily about to crash into an unaware bike rider.
Daedalus Leo—Finale
Chapter Three—Daedalus Squad
8,000 Meters Above Death Valley
Coronado—San Diego—Several Days Earlier
Coronado—Gryphon-10, Mk 4
Coronado—Max
Coronado—Squad Drop Prep
Howland & Baker Islands—Prelaunch
Amelia Earhart Skyport—Prelaunch
Amelia Earhart Skyport—Launch
Slingshot Rail
Figure 12—Slingshot Space Launch Loop with the Hohmann Transfer Orbit and the last leg of the final orbit track from Australia to the final landing at Amargosa Valley.
LEO
Figure 13—Hohmann Transfer Orbit to the apogee over Lagos. Final circularized orbit track from apogee.
Figure 14— Tiger Baily’s SWIC team on pallets in LEO with spare oxygen and fuel tanks.
LEO—Squad Drop
Figure 15—Final orbit track over the Indian Ocean to Australia.
Figure 16—Tiger Baily’s SWIC Team in formation in LEO preparing to drop.
Death Valley—Bird Strike
Death Valley Snag
Figure 17—C-130 Hercules aircraft receiving Tiger Baily’s damaged Gryphon with assistance from Jerico.
Daedalus Squad—Finale
Chapter Four—Daedalus Combat
Mozambique Channel—200 Kilometers Northeast of Mayotte Island
Amelia Earhart Skyport—Prelaunch
Amelia Earhart Skyport—Launch
Slingshot Rail
Figure 18—Slingshot Space Launch Loop with the Hohmann Transfer Orbit.
LEO
Figure 19—Tiger Baily’s SWIC team in LEO Preparing For Drop.
LEO—COMBAT DROP
Figure 20—The Hohmann Transfer Orbit and the apogee with the shortened LEO path. the drop point and destination, Mayotte Island.
Figure 21—Rog and his team head to free CS Platypus. Tiger and Jerico on their way to rescue Senator Manfred.
MAYOTTE ISLAND—CS PLATYPUS
Figure 22—Mayotte Island with Port of Longoni and Doujani Reservoir
MAYOTTE ISLAND—DOUJANI RESERVOIR
DOUJANI RESERVOIR SNAG
Figure 23—The Fulton ground-to-air extraction system
MAYOTTE ISLAND—LAGOON
DAEDALUS COMBAT—FINALE
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