Matchstick plane

Have a look at this, we should try it sometime

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ANIMAL POWER IT'S THE FUTURE YOU KNOW

I am going to build that NOW

There's no flies on you Sam

When I was an apprentice we used to "chill "bluebottles then stick em (by their rear ends) on to trianlgular pieces of paper, leave em in the sun to warm up a bit and then watch these Delta's wizz around ........ mmmm great fun! not for the flies, obviously

Marty wrote:When I was an apprentice we used to "chill "bluebottles then stick em (by their rear ends) on to trianlgular pieces of paper, leave em in the sun to warm up a bit and then watch these Delta's wizz around ........ mmmm great fun! not for the flies, obviously

Supprised your memory recall can go back that far Marty

No bluebottles when I was a nipper they were all maggots

Fair comments! (my life boat ticket was signed by Noah!) LOL

Spray flies with hairspray. Each application lowers the tone of the flies "buzz", and reduces the thrust available. Good for tuning those multi-engine installations, where you have asymmetric thrust situations....

Andy

hehe