Thursday, January 6, 2011

Current Day: Colorado Airspace, eastbound

Lightning flared again, looking to Kailey like one big, bright flash. The sleet had frozen solid against the XG’s canopy. She was flying mostly by instruments, since the cameras didn’t give her a much better view than that through the canopy. As the lightning increased, the instruments’ reliability was starting to waver.
“Steady,” came Lieutenant Danz’ voice over the radio, around the warbling and squawking of the storm. “We’re nearly there.”
“Multimillion dollar aircraft, and they can’t even put in defrosters?”