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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
 Posted - 07/21/2007 : 14:09:28
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Ok, I know most of you don't read Swedish, but if you just look at the pictures you'll get the ... eh ... picture.
The only thing that isn't conveyed by the pics is that you're supposed to catch 4 flies in a jar and put the jar in the freezer long enough to render the flies immobile, but not dead. Then breathe on the flies to thaw them.
http://www.fortunecity.se/skogsangen/lummelunda/195/
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/21/2007 : 14:49:20 [Permalink]
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I indeed do not read Swedish. But I think I get the idea. So this is a four-engine kamikaze micro-aircraft, equipped with a contact-igniting incendiary warhead, right? And the flies are simultaneously its unwilling passengers, its pilots, and its engines. Already knowing they are doomed, they get to cooperate in deciding their target for vengeance? Dramatic setup, and very cool!
I do find it amazing that 1) they let you play with matches over there, and 2) that Sweden is still standing.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2007 : 15:19:06 [Permalink]
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Wow, a four fly-engine fly-bomber. This reminds me, years ago (while earning a Master's Degree in college) I recall also making a missile variation of this, (without the fly power plants and pilots).
1. Break off the ignitable head of a good sized wooden match.
2. Carefully stick a long needle a bit into the broken wooden part.
3. Take a 2 by 2 inch square piece of tinfoil and place the match head with needle base into the center of the foil and twist the foil around the head, twirling it tightly against the match head and down along the shaft of the needle.
4. Gently hold the tin wrapped match head and carefully pull out the needle leaving a tiny rocket tube and tiny opening in the back.
5. Place this match head rocket on a pre-made "launching pad" i.e. a folded piece of paper or foil propped up at a tilt. Make sure the tin-covered match head sticks out over the edge of the simple launcher.
6. Light another match and hold the flame under the tin-covered match head, and...
7 WHOOOOSHHH! A match head rocket fires off into space!
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2007 : 18:08:34 [Permalink]
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I saw a video once - a long time ago - that suggested that houseflies would always and only fly if their feet weren't touching anything. But I suppose that's wrong.
Here's something nice.
Fly plane failures - I think they shouldn't have used krazy glue.
Someone has set your link to music, Mab, and I think translated it into Portuguese.
Into English, also. Why do people like to set their failed fly-planes on fire?
Then again, maybe those failures happened because people were gluing the flies' feet down. The video I saw had a slender wire glued to the fly's back, so they could dangle it in mid-air. If they put a cottonball in its feet, it would stop flying and "walk" on the cottonball. Only when they pulled the cottonball away would the fly fly.
Screw the flies, and the plane, I want one of these (well, it was fun while it lasted). |
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JEROME DA GNOME
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Posted - 07/21/2007 : 18:42:35 [Permalink]
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Dave, I like the second link!
Amazing, not disgusting at that angle!
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2007 : 21:59:03 [Permalink]
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Why is no one attaching "engines" to the tailplane? Surely they're not expecting aerodynamics to work in this configuration.
I too wonder about the desire to incinerate the failures. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2007 : 22:39:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
I saw a video once - a long time ago - that suggested that houseflies would always and only fly if their feet weren't touching anything. |
Then how could they ever take off? 
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2007 : 09:31:02 [Permalink]
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Yes, it's portuguese.
Maybe they set fire to make it more realistic? [;p] |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2007 : 11:51:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JohnOAS
Why is no one attaching "engines" to the tailplane? Surely they're not expecting aerodynamics to work in this configuration. |
I forgot to mention that I've also seen a video of an actual, working fly-powered plane, a balsa-wood-and-tissue biplane slightly smaller than a box of matches. If I remember correctly, the fly's butt was glued to a stick jutting out in front, and it really did drag the little plane around the room, in the air.
That's what I really wanted to find on YouTube when I found all that other stuff.
The keywords for searches are tough. "Fly plane" just doesn't cut it. But look what I just found on Google, anyway: FlyPower.com, selling DIY fly-powered airplane kits.
And it seems that my memory is vindicated!Finally, one last fact. As you will see on the Historical Flypower page, many designs for fly powered aircraft have been presented to the unwary public. Most depict flies being glued to some form of fuselage by their feet. This is a sure way to disaster.
Fact: Flies will only continue to beat their wings so long as their feet are free. As soon as the feet become stationary, the will stop flying. Remember this as the fundamental rule of FlyPower. They even have a birthday card with their kit inside. Cute.
Oh, and they say that the original illustrations that Mab's link apparently copied were from Esquire magazine circa 1990.
Edited for slpelgni. |
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jason hinds
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Posted - 08/10/2007 : 01:26:37 [Permalink]
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Spam removed. //Dr. Mabuse
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| Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 08/11/2007 02:36:09 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2007 : 01:37:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by jason hinds
Spam removed. //Dr. Mabuse
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I think this is the very first caviar spam I've ever seen.
Mmmm, caviar Spam!
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| Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 08/11/2007 02:37:00 |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2007 : 02:37:51 [Permalink]
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| Caviar on canned ham? I think I'll pass thank you. |
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2007 : 06:54:54 [Permalink]
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There's another way to make the mini-rocket that Chippewa mentioned, it's shown in the Scientific American Great International Paper Airplane Book, from around 1973 I believe:
Take a paper match, lay a pin along it with the point at the base of the matchhead
Wrap tinfoil around the head to about a third of the way down the shaft
Remove the pin leaving an exhaust channel
Take a paper clip and bend the inner loop up at a 45 degree angle
Place the match on the paper clip launch stand
Hold a lighted match under the head of the wrapped one and wait! |
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