The music in Tuesday's first set ranged from a rustling stir to an engine-revving din, with each band member clearly attuned to the output of the whole.
No — they're here to kill us and terrorize our women and children". As the men spoke, a drone passed slowly overhead, the dull whine of its turboprop engine audible over the din of traffic in the crowded city of Jalalabad, a three-hour drive from Ganbir.
The Antelopes' athletic director is quick to note several cranes within eyeshot, engines coughing in the din.
Under a blue sky, crews were pushing the cars onto pit row and drivers were taking them out on the track, the dozens of revving engines creating a frightening din.
Later, as the stands emptied and the deafening screams of 22 monster-horsepower engines faded into the din of postrace celebration, traditional lines between Eastern and Western cultures faded: lobster-red Europeans, sprawled out on embroidered Bedouin cushions under the shade of a tent to smoke shisha pipes, impregnating the air with the sweet smell of fruit-flavored tobacco.
Wind noise was so intrusive at 70 m.p.h. that I kept thinking the windows were cracked open; the engine buzz added to the din.
"Ready?" a voice yelled above the din of the engine, interrupting the reverie and momentary self-denial that I was about to jump out of a plane.
The Greek driver had spent the journey lecturing him on Cyprus, and out of courtesy he had crouched on the jump seat in order to hear him over the din of the engine.
With some engineering effort, better engine mounts and lots of sound damping, BYD can reduce the din.
"We are going to fight this offshore," the captain said, over the din of the engines; Nungesser, he recalled, looked upon his threatened parish and grew quiet.
"Only God can stop the bombing and He chooses not to," a man tells me after the din of jets engines has faded.
