(The following is an excerpt from my book, Prelude to a Super Airplane. It can be purchased by clicking on any of the roughly 400 banners adorning this site, or by clicking here. It’s also available on Amazon.
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Army Captain Peter Ovaire was an ambitious soldier, with large ambitions.
In the heat of battle, he would often, not unlike a professional athlete, picture himself winning the battle. Peter Ovaire felt this visualization technique was an essential part of his many and varied Army Captaining successes.
Peter Ovaire wasn’t shy about sharing this technique with his men, and they often stood in awe, as Peter dazzled them with his ability to both fight a battle and picture himself winning that same battle, all at once. He found this amusing, as Peter Ovaire had always been able to do two things at the same time – perhaps this was why he had become the top young Army Captain in this, America’s Secret War With Brazil.
Captain Peter Ovaire was attempting his visualization technique on the morning of September 14, 1973, as he drove his grounded Army Battle Airplane through a one-foot thick solid gold barrier – the barrier that surrounded the headquarters of the Brazilian Warlord, Horatio Rodriguez.
Being inside the headquarters of Horatio Rodriguez was exciting for Peter Ovaire, for he had now done in seven days what the entire Marine Corps had been unable to accomplish in seven weeks.
Still, apprehension loomed, for in front of Peter Ovaire stood a second solid gold barrier, and this barrier was two feet thick. Peter did the math, and noted that the new barrier was twice as thick as the first.
(His co-airplane-driver, an aspiring scientist named Markush Von Vendervan, was supposed to be doing these calculations, but he was currently having visions of what he would later say was his “scientific destiny”.)
Peter Ovaire noted several other things, including, but not limited to, twelve additional solid gold borders that still lay ahead of him and his grounded Battle Airplane. These borders were each a full foot thicker than the one that preceded them, and all were made of solid gold.
It was helpful to see these at this time, for it assisted Peter Ovaire in visualizing himself busting through each and every one of them in his Battle Airplane, which was now on fire.
The fire originated from the five thousand men and children that made up Horatio Rodriguez’s El Elite Warrior Squad, who were now shooting Peter Ovaire’s Battle Airplane with flame throwers, and grenades, and handheld missiles, and special boulders, which exploded upon impact.
Regardless, Peter Ovaire was the best and brightest young Captain in the entire Army, and for this reason, he and his Battle Airplane pushed forward without hesitation, and penetrated the inner hot tub party war chamber of the Brazilian Warlord, Horatio Rodriguez.
In this moment, Peter Ovaire knew that he had won America’s Secret War With Brazil for These United States of America, and he also knew that this would propel him into the national spotlight as a war hero, even though America’s Secret War With Brazil was a secret.
Peter Ovaire sat back in his Army Battle Airplane seat, ignoring his babbling young scientist of a co-airplane-driver, Markush Von Vendervan. For in this moment, Peter Ovaire thought of his large ambitions.
Captain Peter Ovaire, in fact, was using his visualization technique to see the day that he would become President of These United States of America.
Brad Radby’s Foreward, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 31
