That was left to the experts, and pilots who forgot this, who became too interested in what they were photgraphing, got into trouble. One of the first rules of air reconnaisssance was "Ignore the scenery" analysis and evaluation were not the job of the pilot. And then he was up, still climbing, bringing the plane around in a slow arc, preparing for the descent into his second run and trying not to think of what he and seen. He saw bodies, bodies everywhere, spreadeagled, lying in the streets, across cars. He had a fleeting glimpse of the main street. For a long moment he continued to fall, and then he shoved the stick forward, and the plane seemed to catch in the air, to grasp, and lift and climb. He pressed the camera buttons and felt, rather than heard, the vibrating whir of the cameras. The Andromeda Strain brings Michael Crichtons techno-thriller to the big screen with striking intelligence and. Below him, the area around the town was lighted for hundreds of yards in every direction. He dropped his nose, cracked down his flaps, and felt a shudder as the plane sank sickeningly, like a stone, toward the ground. "All yours, Gunner." Wilson did not answer.
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