Bunker PLC brings a blast of post-apocalyptic weirdness to London.
Photo: Nate Lanxon/Wired UK

There’s something disorientating about seeing a prosthetic corpse being opened up. Particularly so when you’re trapped in an abandoned World War II bunker in East London, surrounded by an unsettling darkness and three dozen confused strangers.

VALDEZ, Alaska — The crowd at the Valdez Fly-In begins to rumble as pilot Josh Pepperd approaches a set of cones and a white line on the pavement in front of them. Flying slower and slower, the nose on his highly modified blue and silver Piper rises higher and higher. With a final few bursts of power, the crowd is cheering louder until Pepperd crosses the white line, pulls back his throttle and drops the final few feet to the pavement.

Hard on the brakes and with a couple of bounces on the large balloon-like tires, the tail on Pepperd’s airplane rises precariously and he comes to a stop. The c...