Greg Lynche. Duncan Hunter's mentor and boss.
Greg Lynche was a career intelligence officer at the CIA. He got the best assignments, rocketed up the corporate ladder, and should have been the Director of Central Intelligence. He didn't achieve the top spot because he wasn't political enough; he was more "operational" than political, and the DCI position is usually a "political appointee." But the job where Lynche succeeded beyond his wildest dreams was as Chief Air Branch.
In the 1950s and 60s, this was the office where the ideas for U-2 and A-12/SR-71 spyplanes are born. In the 1990s, when Lynche is retired but "still in the game," he stumbled onto Duncan Hunter at the U.S. Border Patrol and brings him into the world of the CIA and one of their black programs. Lynche has an idea that goes against everything the CIA has been working on since the shoot down of Francis Gary Powers in 1960. The CIA vowed to never again put a man in an airplane over hostile territory. But the unmanned aircraft technology is not reliable and countless counterterrorism and counternarcotics missions are killed before they ever get off the ground for the lack of a reliable aircraft.
As a retired intelligence officer, Lynche has an idea: if he had the right pilot and aircraft, would the CIA "contract" for their services? Lynche acquires a unique "quiet airplane" and finds Duncan Hunter, at the Border Patrol, not living up to his potential. A contract is awarded and for 15 years Hunter and Lynche operate the quiet airplane around the world, performing the CIA's most sensitive missions. For Hunter, Lynche is his best friend, the brother he never had, and mentor. However, Lynche is Hunter's political opposite—a liberal to Hunter's conservative. Duncan Hunter is revered by Lynche, for his high moral standards, exceptional flying skills, and his ability to solve complex problems. Lynche's pronounced sense of justice often leads him on a collision course with the pragmatic and politically conservative Hunter.
The incredible Lockheed YO-3A, serial number 007, was saved from the scrapheap by Greg Lynche. Built under a top secret US Army program, the motorized glider is aurally stealthy and is able to do things that satellites are incapable of doing and is able to go places where unmanned systems cannot. Hunter is the pilot while Lynche functions as the sensor operator and Hunter's sounding board. Only those with a need to know are aware of 007's existence and capabilities. If James Bond had been a pilot, the super-quiet YO-3A—number 007—would've been his airplane.
Maverick out!
Greg Lynche was a career intelligence officer at the CIA. He got the best assignments, rocketed up the corporate ladder, and should have been the Director of Central Intelligence. He didn't achieve the top spot because he wasn't political enough; he was more "operational" than political, and the DCI position is usually a "political appointee." But the job where Lynche succeeded beyond his wildest dreams was as Chief Air Branch.
In the 1950s and 60s, this was the office where the ideas for U-2 and A-12/SR-71 spyplanes are born. In the 1990s, when Lynche is retired but "still in the game," he stumbled onto Duncan Hunter at the U.S. Border Patrol and brings him into the world of the CIA and one of their black programs. Lynche has an idea that goes against everything the CIA has been working on since the shoot down of Francis Gary Powers in 1960. The CIA vowed to never again put a man in an airplane over hostile territory. But the unmanned aircraft technology is not reliable and countless counterterrorism and counternarcotics missions are killed before they ever get off the ground for the lack of a reliable aircraft.
As a retired intelligence officer, Lynche has an idea: if he had the right pilot and aircraft, would the CIA "contract" for their services? Lynche acquires a unique "quiet airplane" and finds Duncan Hunter, at the Border Patrol, not living up to his potential. A contract is awarded and for 15 years Hunter and Lynche operate the quiet airplane around the world, performing the CIA's most sensitive missions. For Hunter, Lynche is his best friend, the brother he never had, and mentor. However, Lynche is Hunter's political opposite—a liberal to Hunter's conservative. Duncan Hunter is revered by Lynche, for his high moral standards, exceptional flying skills, and his ability to solve complex problems. Lynche's pronounced sense of justice often leads him on a collision course with the pragmatic and politically conservative Hunter.
The incredible Lockheed YO-3A, serial number 007, was saved from the scrapheap by Greg Lynche. Built under a top secret US Army program, the motorized glider is aurally stealthy and is able to do things that satellites are incapable of doing and is able to go places where unmanned systems cannot. Hunter is the pilot while Lynche functions as the sensor operator and Hunter's sounding board. Only those with a need to know are aware of 007's existence and capabilities. If James Bond had been a pilot, the super-quiet YO-3A—number 007—would've been his airplane.
Maverick out!
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