The whirling black shapes rise from their large untidy nests and out over the fields.
It was where you heard the musical hits of the day at pulverising volume and where you could have an out-of-body experience before the onset of drugs – simply by stepping on to the rollercoaster or the whirling waltzer.
There is nothing whirling and tumultuous about it.
From the surface it looks like nothing more exciting than a stationary grey barge; but below are two spinning turbines, known as foils, which look like a whirling carbon-fibre double-helix.
And as the large "E" signifies on the green flag that drops to start each race, all the whirling motors on the track are now propelled by corn-fuel.The idea of linking ethanol and the IndyCar Racing League (IRL) came from Paul Dana, a driver who died a year ago while practising for a race.
The silver Dolphin Basin, a large bowl with spouting and swimming sea creatures in whirling water, was commissioned by Charles I. Its last private owner, however, did not like it.
As Alun Anderson, a science journalist writing in The World in 2014, explains:"Comets are fossils, made of material left over as the planets coalesced from a giant cloud of dust whirling around the newborn sun 4.6 billion years ago.
But even this was not enough for the man who often dreamed he was a bird flying; and in his last, huge opera project, "Licht" (Light), he included a string quartet in which the players were in four separate helicopters whirling above the concert hall.Was this music at all?
However, Mr Bell failed to spot one of the revolutions that was whirling around him: the transition from the managerial capitalism that he witnessed at Fortune to a much more freewheeling entrepreneurial capitalism.
When Ms Bullock's character is buffeted by a stray fragment of machinery, it sends her whirling away at what seems to be an impossible speed but it is not impossible in space.
The pilot must then change the pitch of his craft to let it enter a mode called autorotation, in which the rush of air as it descends keeps the blades whirling, thus providing lift that slows the fall.
