From:	Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: A hand proffered...
Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:36:17 -0800

*****PRIVATE: Lilith

>>>>>[Roger on the Stallion, as the fates would have it, it's been in my
queue. However an interesting chain of events places another card in the
deck. Seems somebody in matrix security caught wind of my previous
message to you and happens to have pointed ears. I don't know how, but
I'll have Jenny look into beefing up our encryption and relays. He in
turn knew a mutual friend in aircraft maintenance who happens to have
tusks. He got a private message to me that there is a gunship here that
will be having annoyingly indeterminate technical difficulties for the
foreseeable future. It happens to be my personal favorite of the rotocraft
here, so I was informed that if I would give them 10 minutes notice, it
would be made ready for my "full inspection." The guy's a real
teddy-bear, so I hope he won't get in trouble for this, but I don't
exactly plan on telling him _no_ until Thunda ceases to exist. It could
help to serve as cover for the Stallions, if anything, but I don't think
that I could get it in an FBI paintjob, not that anyone would believe the
Feddies get to play with a mil-spec chopper like that, anyway. At least
the Stallion can say, "Who me? I'm just a transport chopper. Don't mind
those things hanging off the sides."

I'll get in touch with Sacha once this blows over. They want me to hit
500 hours before they drop the glamour books on the desks of military
procurement officers everywhere. He sounds like a professional so far.

Same thing about the sim, the security will have to downgrade to anal
before they let "visitors" near any of the nice hardware, but don't worry,
it'll happen. Tell Lynch that I have it on good authority that "the F-4
was proof that given enough thrust, a brick will fly." I always add,
"the MiG-25 was proof that given even more thrust, the brick will fly
fast." Good luck on the Skyhawk, but I don't deal in antiques. Jenny
might be interested to help out, though.

You can introduce us to Quinn and anybody else you care to once we have
Thunda in a can (the barred kind, or the one they collect weekly). The
first round will be on me.]<<<<<
-- Arashi <22:37:23/01-08-96>