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    Honor Flight: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #1
    Honor Flight: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #1
    Honor Flight: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #1
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    Honor Flight: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #1

    By M. L. Buchman

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    (Previously published as Galaxy in USA Today bestselling anthology Origins of Honor.)

    A C-5 Galaxy, the premier heavy transport jet in the US military, and its secret cargo lie shattered across one of America's largest military bases: Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

     

    Some say it crashed. Others say domestic terrorism… Or a declaration of war? They need answers and they need them fast.

     

    Miranda Chase—air-crash genius, high-functioning autistic, and the National Transportation Safety Board's newest investigator—gets the call. But unraveling the real cause could cost her honor or her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBuchman Bookworks, Inc.
    Release dateJul 11, 2020
    ISBN9781393553762
    Honor Flight: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #1
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    M. L. Buchman

    USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.

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      Book preview

      Honor Flight - M. L. Buchman

      Honor Flight

      Honor Flight

      an NTSB / military technothriller story (previously published as Galaxy)

      M. L. Buchman

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      About This Book

      (Previously published as Galaxy in the USA Today bestselling anthology Origins of Honor.)

      A C-5 Galaxy, the premier heavy transport jet in the US military, and its secret cargo lie shattered across one of America’s largest military bases: Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

      Some say it crashed. Others say domestic terrorism… Or a declaration of war? They need answers and they need them fast.

      Miranda Chase, air-crash genius, and high-functioning autistic, and the National Transportation Safety Board’s newest investigator, gets the call. But unraveling the real cause could cost her honor or her life.

      1

      April 2004

      Mooney Three-five-three-Charlie-Victor, Boeing Tower.

      Miranda was less than a hundred feet in the air after taking off from Boeing Field in South Seattle when the tower called her.

      That was unusual.

      The final time she typically talked to the tower was when they gave her clearance to proceed onto the active runway and take off. After that, they just wanted you out of their traffic pattern and gone. But that was definitely her airplane’s N-Number.

      Three-Charlie-Victor. Go ahead, Tower. Though it always bothered her that N-numbers was shortened after the first communication. She’d never met another Three-Charlie-Victor, but she could. And then what might happen? But air traffic control was always about efficiency.

      She was on a straight-out departure to the north because the wind had shifted in the six hours since her arrival from the north. The morning breeze had died, and the spring warmth of the early afternoon now beckoned.

      Straight out would lead her above Harbor Island and out over Elliott Bay with an amazing view of Seattle to her right. Seventy miles to home on Spieden Island in the San Juans. In her Mooney M201—the fastest production propeller-driven plane when her father had bought it twenty years before—she’d be home in twenty minutes.

      Remain in pattern right. Depart south over the reservoir tower. You are redirected to JBLM.

      JBLM? Did I hear that correctly, Tower? Even as she responded, she turned right and raised the landing gear once she came parallel to Boeing’s runway heading south.

      Change was unnerving. She supposed that’s why they called it change.

      One moment she was in the midst of her planned routine, her visual flight rules path from Boeing Field to Spieden made a clear, easy-to-visualize map for the next twenty minutes of her life. Then there would be putting the plane away; and it wasn’t too late for planting her cabbage and broccoli starts.

      But her planned routine was now changed without any warning.

      Roger that. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the tower repeated clearly.

      But I don’t have clearance to land there. JBLM was a massive military base. Nor did she have the charts. She checked in her nav computer, but all it showed on her screen was Restricted Airspace and the most basic information about the field.

      Flaps from takeoff to cruise.

      The Mooney was fast enough she’d be there in under fifteen minutes. Well under.

      Contact their tower on 119.325.

      She punched the frequency into her second radio as they read it out. Roger that.

      And, Miranda?

      Yes, Tower?

      Thanks for all your help with the crash.

      You’re welcome, she supposed was the right response.

      She never knew for certain.

      Mom had taught her that when in doubt, Thank you and You’re welcome were both reasonable responses. She’d been right. They generally worked well—as the second option had appeared to this time.

      She came abreast of the abandoned water tower that hundreds of pilots each day used as their

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