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The alarm came in while Steve lay on his back beneath the Firehawk. He anchored the last clip for the mobile rig’s antenna into place. He’d already done a drone flight from the console he’d set up in the Firehawk’s cargo bay. He’d wanted to verify all systems were functional before he finished anchoring all the wires and consoles in place. It had worked fine, and now the install was done.
He walked one last time around the Firehawk to make sure it was a clean install. The new antenna was clamped to the underside of the tail boom. The wire led around the edge of the retardant tank until it reached the tank control lines. He’d ducked it through the same fuselage penetration and up into the twin-screen console.
The keyboard and trackball controls were embedded on a shelf mounted to the
