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Miranda put her F-86 Sabrejet down right on the numbers designating Runway 12, the very first safe position to land past the threshold. Flying mostly from the short field of Spieden, she wasn’t in the practice of wasting runway length. At Davis-Monthan, she had to taxi well down the thirteen-thousand-foot runway to reach the first taxiway turnoff.
“Your team is awaiting you at Hanger 9,” Ground Control informed her.
They were?
But that wasn’t possible.
She’d given them the use of her Mooney M20V Ultra, which was the fastest single-engine light plane built, but it still traveled at less than half the speed of sound. It was very disorienting to discover that they’d already arrived from their base in Tacoma, Washington, less than a hundred miles from her own home.
She had anticipated
