Mostly it is pretty relaxing, though there are times the air gets blue.
Our camera does not really handle close-ups too well: here is one of the engine, though, when it was nearly ready to install....
The ailerons were rigged in a manner common in the pioneer days.. Lines ran from the control wheel to each aileron, but nothing connected the ailerons to one another to make them work in opposition. The control cable to each aileron could only pull it down. When the machine was at flying speed, the slipstream pressed the ailerons up, and their rise was restrained by their control cables to alignment with the wing's camber. When the wheel was turned in one direction, it tightened the wires on one side and pulled one aileron down; it may also have slackened the line to the opposite aileron, allowing it to rise and so reducing the lift it generates on the other wing-tip, but I do not know for certain that was the case. But it would positively pull one aileron down, increasing the lift of that wing tip, and so banking the wings. Since nothing but the slip-stream held the ailerons up, when the machine was at rest they both just hung there.
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