Make yourself a FREE self-powered airplane!

[erikiksaz]

Instructions are here

Don't know if it's a repost, but it's still an awesome project!

 

[OulOat]

AWesome

 

[Brutuskend]

My dad showed me how to do that when I was a kid.

A LOOONG time ago.

It DOES work!

Actually the way he showed me was to just make a paper airplane and glue it to the fly's ass.

 

[sillymofo]

This just give me an idea, match stick race cars, with ants......... muwahahahahahah :evil:

 

[rgwalt]

Repost from long ago, like years.

R

 

[LOLyourFace]

this is nothing, I used to catch dragonflies and tie a little thread onto its tail.

hold on to the thread and let go of the dragonfly. It is so freaking cool how he can fly all he want, hovering about 5-10 feet above you, yet you have a complete control over him.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
this is nothing, I used to catch dragonflies and tie a little thread onto its tail. hold on to the thread and let go of the dragonfly. It is so freaking cool how he can fly all he want, hovering about 5-10 feet above you, yet you have a complete control over him.

Blah... dragonflies are for sissies, try June bugs.

 

[LOLyourFace]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
this is nothing, I used to catch dragonflies and tie a little thread onto its tail. hold on to the thread and let go of the dragonfly. It is so freaking cool how he can fly all he want, hovering about 5-10 feet above you, yet you have a complete control over him.

Blah... dragonflies are for sissies, try June bugs.

how the hell do you tie a thread around june bugs? their whole top body is made of wings that need to expand.... tying it around the delicate legs will fall off in a sec.

 

[sillymofo]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace this is nothing, I used to catch dragonflies and tie a little thread onto its tail. hold on to the thread and let go of the dragonfly. It is so freaking cool how he can fly all he want, hovering about 5-10 feet above you, yet you have a complete control over him.

Blah... dragonflies are for sissies, try June bugs.

how the hell do you tie a thread around june bugs? their whole top body is made of wings that need to expand.... tying it around the delicate legs will fall off in a sec.

Around the neck my friend, just enough so you don't choke them.

EDIT: Actually, the neck is not correct, more like the waist.

 

[Analog]

Can you use dragonflies?

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
Can you use dragonflies?

yes.. i have done stuff with dragonflies when i was a kid.

I highly suggest using 2 instead of 4.. lesser "torque".

 

[xSauronx]

watch the happy flies...hah, happy flies. thats great.

 

[edro]

Sit back and enjoy watching the happy flies playing with the plane! None of them will have experienced anything like this before!

OMG, this has got to be from like the 50s. Watch the happy flies play with the plane!?!?! I mean, I'm not PETA member or anything, but that's torture!

Step 7: After you are done having your fun fun plane day, gently rip the flies' legs out from their body and store your plane in a safe place (with all the legs still attached).

 

[badmouse]

Step 7: After you are done having your fun fun plane day, gently rip the flies' legs out from their body and store your plane in a safe place (with all the legs still attached).

Nah. The flies don't last long enough to do that. As I recall from the 50's, when this was considered nasty, they last a few seconds and then crash into a wall, or the floor, or whatever, and die. Slowly and noisily.

 

[Czesia]

Originally posted by: edro13

Sit back and enjoy watching the happy flies playing with the plane! None of them will have experienced anything like this before!

OMG, this has got to be from like the 50s. Watch the happy flies play with the plane!?!?! I mean, I'm not PETA member or anything, but that's torture!

Step 7: After you are done having your fun fun plane day, gently rip the flies' legs out from their body and store your plane in a safe place (with all the legs still attached).

Have to agree, it sounds a little torturous.

Just a note for those of you who WILL try this at home. It's about the fridge/freezer thing. I used to study dragonflies and we used that method to slow down their metabolism long enough to take sufficient measurements and make observations about them (length, wingspan, sex, etc). However, it is better to put them in the fridge as freezing them may cause damage to the fly.

Oh, wait. You're already gluing them to the plane anyway. Silly me, they're already destined to be damaged... :Q For the love of flies, why don't you just leave the poor things alone! :disgust:

 

[feralkid]

Has anyone ever smelled moth balls?

 

[GreenGhost]

Where's PETA when you need them?

 

[AMCRambler]

Nothing like sticking some bugs that at crap in the fridge next to your food.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
this is nothing, I used to catch dragonflies and tie a little thread onto its tail. hold on to the thread and let go of the dragonfly. It is so freaking cool how he can fly all he want, hovering about 5-10 feet above you, yet you have a complete control over him.

Blah... dragonflies are for sissies, try June bugs.

June bugs are too stupid to do that. they would just fly hit the end of the string (if its possible to put a string on a june bug) then fall to the ground and buzz on its back...