And then you need someone to start the engine 😀

first you need a pilot. 😀

Horses in a plane

A Wright Flyer towed to the strip by horses

I know that’s not smoke. It’s used to put out smoking fires and used as a vertilizer. 😎

smoking Nimrod below

stop smoking 🙂

Enough. Lets go back to airplanes. Here’s another fly, a Dragonfly. (Temora Aviation Museum 2009)

I think it is in fact hanging by the hook.
Which is just as well to keep this thread running by hook or by crook.

And what do you think that hook catched? 😉