“Death of the Dogfight”: An Interview with Dale Brown
Epilogue: Heroes, after a Fashion
Other Books by the Authors
Bright Memorial Hospital, Honolulu
0302 (all times local)
IT LOOKED LIKEan arrow as she turned to get away from it. Breanna pushed hard on her control stick, but the plane barely responded. Caught with little forward momentum, the Megafortress waddled in the air, finally managing to jerk its nose back to the right just in time to avoid the missile.
A second and third homed in. Breanna Stockard put her hand on the throttle slide, desperate to get more speed from the power plants.
It was too late. She could see one of the missiles coming at her right wing, riding the air like a hawk.
Bree had ECMs, flares, tinsel—every defensive measure the experienced Megafortress pilot could muster was in play, and still the hawk came on, talons out.
And then, just as it was about to strike the fuselage in front of the starboard wing root, it changed. The slim body of the Russian-designed Alamo missile thickened. Wings grew from the middle, and the steering fins at the rear changed shape. Breanna was being tracked by an American Flighthawk, not a missile. For a moment, she felt relief.
