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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Wow … that’s pretty crazy. Did you try building that fly powered airplane?
I would rather spend my time surfing the internet than thinking a way to catch flies alive. :lame:
haha … oh well, would have been interesting to watch
Woah. I wouldn’t mind this, but my old science teacher would blab on about animal cruelty.
uch: If anybody out there tries this, please record it for us! 
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!
This really works, i’ve actually seen it been done on a taiwanese show hosted by Jacky Wu.
It doesnt work to me
The fly just get stoned of the glues and thats it, she died… :confused:
So you managed to catch the fly? How did you do that?
The method proposed here is critically flawed. A fly needs to have it’s legs free to flap it wings and navigate. A preferred embodiment of this idea is available in kit form (minus the fly engine) at http://www.flypower.com. Anyone with patience and nimble fingers can launch a fly powered airplane. Yes, it really works!
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i didn’t like it at all.first- it can never work and now try putting yourself in the poor insect’s place- and then talk to me. by the way after this are you even going to release the flies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heXD–5qRIE
You Rock
capturing flies is not so easy,,,,,,,,,,
I yhink this is a wonderful project, I would like to build a bigger one using birds. I think a 2 bird engines would be enough, just glue their feet to the wings and feed them well.
bird engines, lol.. i bet disgusting pigeons would do their job for this
amazing trick is it a practical and practiceable
good, ok
i don't think that kill flies only to do something like that is good idea, but nice try