Painting: a farmer ploughs above the sea while, far below, Icarus falls into the water beside a passing ship.

Aether

Aircraft. Later.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, after Bruegel, about 1560

Aircraft

Aircraft broadcast where they are, and nothing signs it.

The satellite signals they navigate by are jammed and spoofed the way a ship’s are. An aircraft has a stall speed, a climb rate and a turn it cannot tighten. The same question, asked of the sky.