Soldier Up (28 page)

              “What did you do?” asked the Colonel.

              The Hiller man looked at the Colonel, “Well we first replaced the thingamabob, then we fixed the do-hicky, and torked the wack-a-doodle.”

              “Oh, so that’s all it was?” laughed the Colonel.

              “Don’t worry Colonel we showed your mechanics what to do they were actually pretty close to getting the old girl running she just needed a few other tweaks.”

              “Will she fly?” asked Major Baroon.

              “Yeah she should do you wanna go on a test flight?” he asked.

              “Hell yeah!” said the Colonel.

              “Well let’s load her up, get those blocks moved and get her in the air?”

              Colonel Brandt, Major Baroon, all the Hiller men and many of the Air Force mechanics loaded into the B-52.

              One of the Air Force mech’s remained behind and pulled out the blocks and acted as a ground guide.  The pilot powered up the engines and started to slowly taxi to the runway.