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Peterson managed to circle the plane and head it back toward Cheyenne. Alerted by radio message. Air Force crash trucks raced to emergency stations along the runway. Into the control tower rushed Lou Domenico, 41, an ex-Air Force flight instructor and owner of Cheyenne's Sky Harbor Air Service. He was about to give the most important flying lesson of his career, a life-or-death radio exchange with the Cessna. Excerpts...
Tower: Descend to about 7,000 feet. Stay well east of the field so you can line up with the east-west runway...
Peterson: You mean this big orange runway right under...
Domenico (taking over): Affirmative. Make a turn to your right and descend. Get out about five miles from the end of the runway you are flying parallel to right now. and line up with it and be at 7,000 feet. We'll bring...
...maps that would be I required for my flight, then plotted the positions of my targets from the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates also given me by Intelligence. At this time the Intelligence specialist briefed me in detail on the targets; for example, on the airfield he gave me the runway alignment compass direction, approximate site of the building areas, and he gave me the list of Essential Elements of Information, referred to as EEIs, that would be required of the airfield...