Robots and rockets (Continued 2)

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After a few seconds, the pilot robot slowly rises.

ROBOT #2:     Lift-off.

THE PILOT ROBOT

The pilot robot surges at express train speed, ascending to 5,000 feet...

PILOT ROBOT:     (in a steely voice)   Stable ascent to five thousand feet.

THE SCIENTIST ROBOTS

Check flight data on their tablets.

ROBOT #1:     Dr. Killro, we have achieved engine efficiency of seventy-nine percent.

ROBOT #2:     Exhaust velocity is three hundred fifty seven point forty three feet per second.

DR. KILLRO

Presses the remote engine buttons.

DR. KILLRO:     Testing remote ignition system...

ROBOT #2:     Remote engine ignition engaged.

THE PILOT ROBOT

The engine is still blasting out at full throttle as the robot makes a series of aerobatic maneuvers.

It controls its direction by shifting its body and banking its wings to make turns.

Then the rocket idled...

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