at night, they turn on the aircraft's exterior lights to indicate they are ready. big eye explains that ah-chai growing soft over the years has doomed them all and he was only trying to save himself from the same fate. history
this lighthouse was built from 1903 to 1905.  the round cast iron tower is  tall and it is painted red with two white horizontal bands. i read about such things in books, but i do not believe that they really existed. there he took the 34th place in the laser class. 