Everywhere you turn here, something is defying gravity. No matter who you're talking to, every conversation could be interrupted by the scream of raw jet power.
It's no big thing -- just life at the Farnborough International Airshow.
While the world's aviation execs were hammering out business deals behind closed doors, everyone else was having fun checking out the planes and the gear.
They hold the show every two years here because this is hallowed ground. It's the birthplace of British aviation, where Samuel Franklin Cody became the first to fly an airplane in the UK in 1908.
Now, with all this aviation eye-candy lying around, it's hard to simply walk around the place without getting your mind blown.
Here are a few choice examples: