Noisy birds

[bellinghman]

Warbirds, that is.

I'm sitting here, attempting to concentrate, and I keep getting distracted by the sound of aero engines.

Ah, I apologise, they're not warbirds after all. I just got the binoculars out and checked, and that group of four aircraft doing formation loops have fixed undercarriages and look to be low wing monoplane trainers. They're behaving like warbirds, though. Right now all four of them are diving towards the same bit of sky from four different directions.

I assume they're practising for Duxford this weekend, but they're not on the guest list.

(Why binoculars at my desk? Well, I have a window seat, and a nice large chunk of sky beyond it, and it's not infrequent that there's somebody out in it doing aerobatics. And we have had a hawk sitting on the car park fence before now.)

Comments

[liasbluestone.livejournal.com]

...and they get them off the ground how exactly?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The crew vigorously flapping their arms, of course.

Though a static winch might work. Be a frigging big one, of course.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm
I was thinking more along the lines of harnessing up all the new recruits, and telling them to run really really fast.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

That is another possibility, yes.

Perhaps lots of small dogs - terriers, maybe - all in harness?