Revisited the airplane graveyard, they were exiled there. A group of guys who were accused of welding junkers into things not suited for urban living. The latest project was mega wind machines. No not wind mills, but.........wind harvesters.
They found cargo plane fuselages, cut them into sections and welded them in a torus configuration. Then they mounted the huge steel doughnut on landing gear trucks. They could drive the thing in any direction. In the middle, the doughnut hole, they built an oversize turbine/generator. Then there were anchor pods which fired anchors into the earth. I said they were nuts during the demo. They mapped a tornadoes path, raced to a level site along the storms trek. The storm wasn't that big but still had the funnel. Adjustments were made in tracking, the darn thing latched onto the tornado. The turbine leaped into action sucking the storm to a wimper. We followed the funnel as long as the ground was level. Then fired the anchor pods, jerking to a stop. The batteries were full and the guys busting with that insane laughter that got them in trouble in the first place. I had to go when they said the words remote deployment.
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