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and put his plane into a dive to avoid him, as well.
The two aircraft didn't hit head-on; in fact they
barely touched. But as light as it was, the collision
tore the vertical stabilizers off of the TR-3, throwing
it into a fiat spin. Hammer barely had time to reach
for the ejection handle to his bang seat before the
Night Owl started coming apart around him.
The rocket motor in the bottom of his Lockheed-
Martin ejection seat blew him through the closed
cockpit canopy, sending him six hundred feet into
the air. At the top of its trajectory, the seat automat-
ically separated from the pilot and the spring-loaded
parachute deployed.
Fighting to get his parachute canopy under control,
Hammer watched his multimillion dollar, high-tech
spy plane turn into aerial junk below him. He looked
for the other plane, but didn't see anything, not even
the blue flame of its exhausts. But if it was flying as
fast as the AWACS had said it was, it would be out
of sight by now. Alone in the night sky, he fell with
only the sound of the wind in the chute's risers for
company.
Checking the altimeter on his parachute harness,
Hammer saw that he was getting close to the ground.
With no moon to illuminate the terrain below him,
he decided to take his chances with what fate had
given him rather than trying to pick out a safe land-
ing spot. In the dark, everything down there looked

the same, so trying to change direction might well
take him into something worse than what waited be-
low.
The landing shock took Hammer by surprise and
drove the wind out of him. Looking around, he saw
that he had landed in a cleared area. He couldn't see
much beyond that as he hit the release to drop his
parachute harness. He was reaching into the pocket
of his flight suit for his survival radio when he felt
a blow to the head and everything went black.

Stony Man Farm, Virginia

HAL BROGNOL^, Barbara Price and Yakov Katze-
nelenbogen were crowded into Aaron Kurtzman's
computer room at Stony Man Farm watching the
real-time readouts that were being sent from the
TR-3's satellite data link. The spy plane was trans-
mitting a full range of infrared video, magnetic im-
aging, electronic emissions, terrain-mapping radar
and everything else in its sizable bag of tricks.