Broken Wings of the Secret Space Program

By Elizabeth Donavan

Jim Morgan is a seasoned test pilot, and agrees to test pilot a special aerospace plane that uses antimatter and the hydrogen of space for fuel. Something goes wrong, and he winds up stranded far from home, all prospects for rescue gone on an alien world. He survives, and we are with him every step of the way on his journey of discovery. We see how he adapts to his new home, and his isolation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elizabeth Donavan
• Release date: May 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463630112

Elizabeth Donavan

Elizabeth was born and raised in the Chicago area. She worked in several jobs until finally settling down in a small southern town editing two newspapers. She did a lot of short stories that went into other people’s work, at times ghost writing. You can tell her style, which is tongue in cheek, and a dry sense of humor. She traveled across the US, and came back to the south—to the old homestead before leaving for Australia, staying several months there before leaving for Europe. She is still in Europe, and is compiling material for at least two more novels, as well as corresponding with scientists and inventors that specialize in exotic technologies that are for the most part suppressed, and hidden from the public. Sound like a good plot for a spy novel? You betcha, and when that one is ready, it will be released. “No one has a novel that shows what a world might be like with free energy, and advanced tech. Tomorrowland came close, but stopped short. The world is ready for a work that shows what kind of world we could have, but is kept from us for political reasons and corporate profits. Where would we be today if those forces failed at suppressing all this stuff? What kind of alternate universe is out there with all these amazing things?” We shall soon see!

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Broken Wings of the Secret Space Program

Copyright 2018 Elizabeth Donavan

Published by Elizabeth Donavan at Smashwords

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

About Elizabeth Donavan

Connect with Elizabeth Donavan

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to Toledo Hues for allowing me to stay at her place while this baby was gestating, and to all those that helped. Also to Smashwords for distributing this book. It has been both fun, and frustrating at times. I am an old timer with the print medium, and ebooks took quite a bit getting used to, along with learning new software and what it can do, which was amazing.

Writing on a Linux operating system was another thing to get used to. I likened the combination of the two with climbing a mountain. There were several revisions that the text went through to get it in compliance with submittal, and each one was a step forward. I also would like to thank Karen Elkins and Kerrie Claire for their suggestions for graphics and titling. Any suggestions are good suggestions! Hopefully, this text is bug free enough for the meatgrinder, and Sigil, which is the ebook creator.

And a final thank you for the readers, who I will be depending on for support1 I make a solemn promise not to disappoint, and will endeavor to make any fiction as readable as possible, and any nonfiction as thought provoking as I can.

Prologue

There have been a lot of stories about the SSP, or secret space program, also known as the "black world. Some go back to Project Paperclip, where Nazi scientists were imported into the US at the close of WWII. Both before, as well as after this, there are stories of advanced tech, such as the Alien Reproduction Vehicles, or ARV, and flux liners that are mentioned by Mark McClandish.

This story comes from such beginnings. Why the title of Broken Wings? I listened to the song by the Beatles, Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night, and it immediately clicked.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

He was flying an SR-71 Blackbird! Yes, it was heavily retrofitted with advanced tech, but it was still a blackbird, and the only aircraft that was suited for the mission.

Who is Jim Morgan, the ill-fated pilot (well, maybe not so, but those would be spoilers)? He is a veteran of both the civilian as well as military world, and at times the black world as well. He is modeled after Ben Browder, from Stargate and Farscape, or Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy. He’s someone that you would want to have a beer with, or in a pinch save your hide. Jim is laid back most of the time, born and raised in Tennessee, and did a stint in the military while he was young and stupid. Now, he is an experienced pilot, more of a realist than a cynic, and knows the difference between the two. He’s in his late 30’s, and that is getting old for a test pilot. He wonders if they selected him because of that, and whether it made him more expendable than the other guys.

Yes, this might wind up as a series. I think you can see where it’s going toward the end, and so do I, after all, I wrote it! However, with that being said, I end stories where it looks like they should end. I have seen some stories linger on like zombies in print, and didn’t want that to happen here. If I do continue it, then it will be stitched together into a proper book, and re-released. Watch for it!

Chapter One

It all began with an experimental supercollider in Russia. It was a vast structure, built mostly underground and set up for the production of antimatter. They called it the ultimate fuel and the ultimate weapon. You see, nuclear fission is only one-tenth of 1 percent efficient at converting mass to energy. And nuclear fusion is only 10 percent efficient at most. But when hydrogen and anti hydrogen combine, 100 percent of the mass is converted to energy. But you can't just throw the stuff together. According to the engineers, it was