Thanks for the link...

I read Bradbury's collection of short stories, "Golden Apples of the Sun," many years ago and I recall that story about the flying machine. Re-reading it today, I find it as horrifying now as I did then. All too realistic, believable... and all too utterly wrong.

Don't know if you noticed, but this incident definitely reminded me of the rock and sand parable, and I linked to it at the end of my story.

I love Bradbury's writing, especially The Martian Chronicles. I had the privilege of meeting the man once, and witnessed a very strange situation involving him. I must write the story about that some day...