When next you have some time off from the daily hussle and bussle why not make something exciting. This is just a little something we came up with last week.
It's great fun and really quite easy - just follow these instructions.
Using a razor blade, carefully split a match. Make sure that you leave some of the sulphur, it will be the nice nose on your plane.
Build your plane by gluing the small wood chips together – the wing – crossed over the rest of the match. If you feel like it (it’s not necessary) you can use some of the leftovers to build a nice tail. You can also build a bigger wing of lightwood, in this way you can fit even more engines. Use your imagination!
Catch enough flies to satisfy your engine requirement (this is the hard part). Put them in a glass pot. Put the pot in the freezer. In a couple of seconds the flies will be deep cold. I think it’s called "cryogenics" or something like that. Not important. The important thing is that you don’t cool down your engines too much - it will kill them. A good trick and workaround is to put them in the refrigerator instead. It takes more time, but when you finally have caught enough engines it would be wise to be careful with them.
While you’re waiting for your engines to be cold enough and stiff, drop some contact glue on the places where you want to place you engines.
Take out your flies from the refrigerator/freezer. Place them on the glue pools you made in the step above.
Breathe warm breath on the flies. - As if by magic your flies that where frozen a moment ago are now coming back to life. Of course you all knew they were not dead, these guys are your engines.
Start the pane. If you've followed the instructions correctly it should fly well and you haven't been too cruel to the flies either.
They will never have experienced something like this and I'm sure even the flies would agree - this is more fun than beaing eaten by birds of swatted with rolled-up newspapers.
