If Harwood’s prototype at the school was the Wright brothers’ first biplane, this immense scaled-up elaboration of it was a spaceship in drydock.

He meets a couple of guys who have a biplane, and want to purchase—in the sense of expropriate—the gas station.

Before the rally’s Kenya leg, the pilots of around 20 vintage biplanes were detained in Ethiopia for allegedly entering Ethiopian airspace illegally.