บท 114: Helldrodo City

Zeph got excited hearing the air traffic controller in Joint Base Jerrico's control tower tell him to have a safe flight, but he kept his composure and flipped the switch that engaged the hover engines and raised the landing struts.

From there he moved the throttle controls forward slowly until he reached the first notch that was there as a guide to tell the pilot flying the craft that they had reached the minimum thrust required to increase or maintain altitude above the level of what the hover engines were capable of. As Zeph moved the controls forward by another quarter inch, he felt the RD05 Airborne troop transport slowly begin to climb.

*Over Coms*

"Base commander has authorized high-speed lift-off LDNE01 Archangel."

"Roger tower. Increasing takeoff speed."