"They're no faster than.... Wait a minute! We can blow 'em out the
forward catapult and add the catapult speed to the ship's speed."
The flagship became a flurry of action. Men hauled the fighters aloft
and one by one they were hurled out of the launching tube. They kept
their added velocity and slowly, yard by creeping yard, the fighters
drew away from the mother space craft. But yard by crawling yard would
be enough by the time the whole distance was covered....