Hot departure

Spicy on take-off.

A red chilli pepper fitted out as a propeller plane waits on a desert airstrip while a mechanic checks the engine.

Field noteFuselages come in stranger shapes. Few are grown, and fewer are this hot.

Specimen: No. 083
Genus: Generated
Kind: Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks: Category
Where it doesn’t exist: A desert airstrip in the noon heat, cleared for nobody.
Nearest existing relative: A red chilli, and a propeller plane.
Filed in Fresh slop as: Objects

Also possible, also breaking category

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