Mission Log 1:01 – Mandel Skies (Part One)

Retired heroes still need to pay the bills.

That’s what I tell the passengers who board Transport XF-45 every day when they catch sight of me in the pilot seat.

Kay Braithwaite! they say. No way! and then, inevitably, what are you doing here?

Not sure where they’d expect to find me. Hiding in a desert cave like a hermit, maybe. Or sipping wine in some grand estate.

I could tell them it’s just that I love flying, and that’d be true enough. But it’s hard to love a clunker like the XF-4...