Violetta tucked the manila folder back under her foreleg, raising her eyebrows. "Ordinarily, a request to use Canterlot airspace would be directed to the Office of the Air Controller for Canterlot, which is under the First Air Division. The authorization form would eventually land at the desk of Major-General Hoofstrong, where either she or her adjutant would have to approve it on its own merits. For a request like this, the testing of a prototype weapons platform, there would doubtless be numerous questions about the device in question and the risks involved -- questions which would surely attract the attention of the Ordnance Division, and others, too."