The Ramp in the Wood

A small wood in northern France at dawn in early summer, white mist between young oak trees, at the foot of a long inclined launch ramp of steel sections on concrete blocks a small pilotless aircraft resting on a low carriage, a cigar-shaped body in plain unmarked grey-green paint, darker on top, a short straight matt olive wing, above the tail on a slim strut a thick open tube with a grille across its front end, the body plain and unmarked from nose to tail, a canvas cover folded on the wet grass, a technician in a grey work jacket seen from directly behind with a spanner at the carriage.