Build Your Very Own Powered Model Aircraft

Written by Rolf

Using a razor blade, carefully split a match. Make sure you leave some of the sulphur, as it will be the nose of your aircraft.

Build the frame by glueing match sticks together. You can build a bigger wing of lighter wood and fit in even more engines. Use your imagination!

Catch a couple of flies. Put them in a glass pot and put the pot in the freezer. In a couple of seconds the flies will be quite cold and motionless. Don't cool down your engines too much - it will kill them. If you put them in the refrigerator instead, it will take longer.

While you're waiting for your engines to get cold and stiff, drop some contact glue on the places where you want to place your engines.

Take your flies from the refrigerator/freezer. Place them on the pre-fitted glue pools.

Breathe warm air on the flies. Your flies that were frozen a minute ago are now coming back to life again.

Start the plane. If you did things correctly, it will fly! Sit back and enjoy watching the happy flies playing with the plane. None of them will ever have experienced anything like this before!

Disclaimer: This is one of those untraceable classics of which I can't find the original source. So anyone from Peta of whichever organization or like-minded individual: I didn't make this. And even if I did - who cares, they're just flies.