Dec 26
You can build your very own fly powered model aeroplane if you have:
- Match stick
- Blade
- Freezer
- Glue
- Glass pot
- Patience (To catch flies)

In my opinion, the hardest or toughest part is to catch flies. I can’t even kill a fly without chasing like a mad man, they are so fast. So it’s quite impossible to catch one, alive. Can those flies be replaced by mosquito? The task shall be easier if those flies can be replaced by mosquito, but it’s another tough task to keep those mosquito alive. I will definitely try it out if someone could get me flies, is there anyone selling flies?
If you don’t understand the tutorial above, read the tutorial below summarized by me.
How To Build A Fly Powered Model Aeroplane
- Use a blade to split a matchstick without removing the sulphur(the matchstick’s head)
- Build a frame that looks like an aeroplane by using the split-ed matchstick
- Catch some flies and put them in a glass pot, and place the glass pot in the freezer
- While waiting for the flies to get cold, drop some glue on the aeroplane frame(wherever you want to stick your flies on
- Get the flies out of the freezer and stick their legs on the position your glued on the plane
- Breathe warm air on the flies (make sure your air doesn’t stink, or the flies might die)
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December 27th, 2006 at 1:58 am
Wow … that’s pretty crazy. Did you try building that fly powered airplane?
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December 27th, 2006 at 2:10 am
I would rather spend my time surfing the internet than thinking a way to catch flies alive.
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December 27th, 2006 at 5:44 am
haha … oh well, would have been interesting to watch
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December 27th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Woah. I wouldn’t mind this, but my old science teacher would blab on about animal cruelty.
If anybody out there tries this, please record it for us! 
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December 28th, 2006 at 12:46 am
thanks for the trackback anyway. i got the pics from underground forum which i’ve actively participate with. Don’t think that it’s real anyway.. I assumed that it was only a joke. well then, happy new year!
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August 17th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
This really works, i’ve actually seen it been done on a taiwanese show hosted by Jacky Wu.
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June 19th, 2008 at 2:04 am
It doesnt work to me
The fly just get stoned of the glues and thats it, she died… 
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Vincent reply on June 21, 2008 2:56 pm:
So you managed to catch the fly? How did you do that?
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