Flying Eagle: Five SF Stories

By L. E. Doggett

Each of the five adventures are of a different type.

A friendly competition between an alien and a human.
A search to see who is sabotaging a military space station out in the middle of no where. But who is that doctor? And who is the saboteur?
A very special forest, only a few people can see every year, with an unique park ranger.
A new starfighter pilot has a very special assignment to break in his new stealth craft for a different purpose.

A civilian captive of an alien species who are at war with the human race, has a special plan but he has to modify it.

A door to door salesman is frustrated with a new invention

A Bounty Hunter finally gets the drop on his foe or?

• Language: English
• Publisher: L. E. Doggett
• Release date: Jul 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301745029

L. E. Doggett

Finally a picture of me and as it happens my wife. We are at our favorite B&B on our Anniversary.L. E. Or Louis is a writer who lives with his wife of 36 years and 26 year old autistic daughter. He lives in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California, where its HOT during the summer, not so bad during the winter, except for the FOG. He and his wife attend a nice conservative, hopeful church and both work. He is a blue collar worker, with a collage education. Louis has written stories most of his life, but only seriously for the last six years. One of his stories was published as an Honorable Mention in the Star Trek anthology Strange New Worlds 10. Another of his stories--a 50 word tale--was published on the onthepremises.com web site--mini-contest 18--as a Honorable Mention. The last story listed. And He now has an Indie novel published "Above My Pay GradeX2" and a Steampunk Special Ops novel.

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Flying Eagle Presents: Five Science Fiction Adventures

By L. E. Doggett

Published by Louis Doggett at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Louis Doggett

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Table of Contents

Forward

Piece of Cake

Sports Aficionado

Personlity Conflict

The Forest Ranger

Life Sacrifice

Bonuses

I Don’t Want To Be Honest

He Finally Got His Man

About the author

--Foward:

Here are five stories, plus two bonus tales. I wrote them over six years ago when I became series about writing. They are among the very first Science Ficrtion stories I wrote. With the exception of the bonues which were written a couple of years later.

A newly graduated starfighter pilot is choosen to test a new stealth fighter on a very special mission.

Two sports lovers have a unique friendly competation, but why is one headed toward the mountains?

An enlistedman helps to find a sabatour on a space station: what is the Commander’s involvement and who is that Doctor?

A family gets to explore a very unique forest with a special park ranger.

The captive of an alien species has a special plan for himself that is ruined by a memory of his late wife.

One bonus: a conman has to deal with new tech.

Second Bonus:A bounty hunter goes after a long time foe.

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Piece Of Cake

The small ship slid through the crystal clear section of space quietly. Its lone occupant knew, almost, that his ship would blend in with the surrounding space if anyone glanced its way. That would be equally true if they used their physical or electronic eyes. Yet his sweat smell still filled his suit. That suit. Made from light weight, super tough material his suit rested against his body like an outfit made from cardboard. Yet it would protect him from almost anything...almost.

Enrique Monquia, glanced through his cockpit window at the surrounding space. He could see the hundreds of pinpoints of light mixed with yellow dots and nickel size disks that bordered the system he flew through. The stars were bright, providing significant light for this region. That made his job even harder. His sensors and flight computer beeped quietly to themselves. That would be the only sound he would hear on this trip, unless something crushed through the fuselage. Or he ran into something. Green light shown above his counsel. The 3-D imagery worked perfect.

The pilot felt proud he had been chosen to fly this new ship. Its streamlined lines looked very cool, but it had, state of the art everything. Even its stealth protocols were new. This was its first mission. Its special light absorbing material made it look like night even with the number of suns shining around it. He had seen it disappear in a darken hanger.

According to orders Enrique flew with all of his running lights off, no light escaped from the view window placed in the front section of the cockpit. The cockpit sat on top right along the center beam, one quarter of the way back from the blunt nose, near the top edge of the wings.

Enrique’s flight suit while light was more an armored extra vehicle suit than a flight suit, but that is what they called it. Even though his cockpit lights were at their lowest levels he could easily see his controls. Most of the controls shown with their own light and part because his suit’s helmet had a light amplifying feature.

His drives were on stand by, as were most of his systems, including full sensors and the few weapons he had. He cruised with only passive sensors to cut his chance of detection. If the need arouse he could have full operation mode in a one point 5 seconds after the touch of three touch points.

Everything was going, as planned so far. He glanced at the diagram of the ship set in the control panel. The ship was small, three feet shorter than the jet fighters from the Twenty-first century, he had studied in flight school. It was however twice as wider and twice as thick as the fuselage of the same aircraft. He studied the outline again. It was a pleasant looking ship. The new fighter’s wings swept back. The section of the wing that connected the ship’s hull was half as thick as the craft. Their breadth shrunk until they were half of the original size.

He felt calm even with his sweat building. As he had predicted to his friends, this was a piece of cake. He recalled the moment he had announced his special assignment. His friends had been sitting at a table in the academy’s canteen. They were still considered cadets even though they had graduated from the space force academy a few weeks earlier. That meant, among other things, that they could not be in the officers canteen or lounge and they did not belong in the enlisted men’s canteen. They were in a sort of no man’s land, they didn’t officially belong to any group. Like most of those who had been in the same predicament they stayed around the academy while they waited for assignments that would advance them to the next level-full fledged officers.

Enrique had rushed over to their table, barely able to contain himself. He had felt like jumping up and down, as well shouting. That would have caused a scene, as well as being something an officer should not do, so he restrained himself. After arriving at the table he just stood there, until someone asked him what was happening. He had answered by saying that nothing much was happening, he had just been to the bases’ commander's office.

That had taken a few seconds to sink in. Finally three of the six heads spun his way. Jacqueline asked if that was what it sounded like or had he gotten into trouble. He had broken into a large grin and Tony had said that by that smile it was what they thought. Everyone had started to talk at once: some congratulating him, others asked him what the assignment, or asking if the outfit he had been assigned to needed any one else. When they had quieted down he looked around to make sure no one else was close, bent down over the table and spoke in a low voice explaining that he had been given a special assignment piloting a new experimental craft.

Brittany said that those assignments were always the toughest. He replied that he was the best pilot in their graduating class and therefore it would be a piece of cake for him. They had gone to a real restaurant that night to celebrate. Three days later he had been called back to the commander's office and the full assignment had been explained to him. It was top secret, probably shouldn’t have told his friends, as much as he did, but they hadn’t told him it was secret much less Very Top, but he would be quiet about from that moment. All he could tell his friends that he would be leaving soon to go on his mission and that as expected, for him it would be a piece of cake.

Two days later he left and was taken to another base for training in this new craft. He had been surprised how small it was. It wasn’t the first one man fighter he had flown, but it was definitely the smallest. Years of research had gone into condensing various components. They had even changed the shape of some so that they would fit into the space left for them. That was one thing he didn’t like about the ship. Every bit of space was crammed full of electronics and such. If part of one system blew up, it could take two or three other components with it. He had been assured that certain parts had been modified to make sure would not explode and that others had an armored covering which should protect them if something next to them fragmented or blew up. He still wasn’t sure, he thought it sounded good, but it wouldn’t be the first time something that sounded like it would work didn’t in combat.

The ship, didn’t have much in the way of weapons; just four smaller lasers and a larger maser just a bit more powerful than the lasers. The maser was on a turret located on the belly. The lasers were located two to each wing. He had six anti-fighter missiles in two launches, but they were empty this mission. It strong shielding, which were turned off at the moment since it could be detected. The little ship could also carry two ship killer missiles, but this time it had something special.

They had been in a rush since they were working on a time table. The design and building of this prototype had finished significantly ahead