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THE BELL EXECUTIVE JET’S 130 knots or 150 mph top speed cut the travel time to 45 minutes from the 2.5 hours by car to get to The Farm. Julia couldn’t help but enjoy the view from the cockpit where she had insisted on sitting, not wanting to feel like some overcompensated executive being chauffeured.
With Bryan in Washington for the day and Director Greenfield pursuing a green light for their mission, Julia and Sam had a couple of days to prepare and she wanted to make the most of it. Julia had set a 5:00 am alarm on her men’s Rangeman tactical watch, and they had taken off from the DARPA building’s roof at 5:30 am after a quick clean up, a couple of bites of food and a coffee.
The sun was starting to break the surface of the horizon, preceded by spikes of light spearing through the
