Unexpected happenings at Newburgh

It isn't raining today! The sun came out! The sky was blue! Maybe this is the start of Summer!

Aye, and pigs might fly!

On the 4th of November 1909, in a humerous attempt to prove that pigs really can fly, the pioneer aviator Baron Brabazon of Tara, better known to his friends as John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, took a piglet aloft in his biplane, strapped into a wastepaper basket. If you don't believe that, then here is the proof.