Dale Brown
“. . mark.”
Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan glanced up at his mission data display just as the time-to-go clock clicked over to 00:01:59.
Dead on time. He clicked open the command radio channel with the switch near his left foot. “Vapor Two-One copies,” he reported. “CROWBAR, Vapor Two- One requesting final range clearance.”
“Stand by, Two-One.”
Stand by, he thought to himself—not likely. McLanahan and his partner, Major Henry Cobb, were flying in an ...FB-111B “Super Aardvark” bomber, skimming two hundred feet above the hot deserts of southern Nevada at the speed of sound—every five seconds they waited put them a mile closer to the target. The FB-111B was the “stretched” version of the venerable F-l 11 supersonic swing-wing bomber, an experimental model that was the proposed interim supersonic bomber when the B-l Excalibur bomber program was canceled back in the late 1970s. Only a few remained, and the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC)—the Defense Department’s secret test complex for weapons and aircraft, hidden in the restricted desert ranges north of Las Vegas—had them.MoreLess
Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan glanced up at his mission data display just as the time-to-go clock clicked over to 00:01:59.
Dead on time. He clicked open the command radio channel with the switch near his left foot. “Vapor Two-One copies,” he reported. “CROWBAR, Vapor Two- One requesting final range clearance.”
“Stand by, Two-One.”
Stand by, he thought to himself—not likely. McLanahan and his partner, Major Henry Cobb, were flying in an ...FB-111B “Super Aardvark” bomber, skimming two hundred feet above the hot deserts of southern Nevada at the speed of sound—every five seconds they waited put them a mile closer to the target. The FB-111B was the “stretched” version of the venerable F-l 11 supersonic swing-wing bomber, an experimental model that was the proposed interim supersonic bomber when the B-l Excalibur bomber program was canceled back in the late 1970s. Only a few remained, and the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC)—the Defense Department’s secret test complex for weapons and aircraft, hidden in the restricted desert ranges north of Las Vegas—had them.MoreLess
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