Almost too many toys...

[vernon]

Do you remember the old 'Jet x 50 engine'?

Yes and I remember the holes that I burned in the hallway lino with them.

Then there was the occasion when I made a Jetex powered Duplo car, set it up in the long science corridor, opened the fire exit at the end to allow egress into long grass, place the pupils behind me and the car before I lit the fuse then watched in horror as the car did a U-turn 10m away from us, take off and fly at high speed and knee hight towards us. The kids managed to find traction as the climbed the corridor walls and would have done the rock climbing community proud.

Their response once the smoke had cleared:

"Do it again sir!"

 

[derrick]

It's been 40 years since i saw one fly, if i recall right it was a Dutch flying team, Wings and wheels down Essex way.

 

[cosmicbike]

 

[sight-pin]

Lol.. I was never any good at flying the models, Don't think i had one that didn't crash.
Now days I think the 3d heli's are good to watch, I find this spanish lady amazing at flying 3d.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xooni5CM_DQ

 

[derrick]

This is a guy i used to fly with, A promo vid but you will get the jist.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUlBKZ58Tg

 

[vernon]

Radio control is for softies.

I intend to fly wrestle mine on a control line aircraft.

 

[sight-pin]

Radio control is for softies.

I intend to fly wrestle mine on a control line aircraft.

Bet they take some holding....hope you don't get dizzy easy lol

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Radio control is for softies.

I intend to fly wrestle mine on a control line aircraft.

Better get down the gym and build some upper body (and I don't mean the pie paunch)

 

[vernon]

Must be tempting to let go.

Too much kinetic and chemical energy to even contemplate letting go.

In the UK pulse jet control line aircraft are flown inside circular netted enclosures. The handle has a safety strap attached to the wrist. The lines and attachment points to the handle and aircraft are pull tested at a tension much greater than they are subjected to under flight conditions.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I just read this thread straight after the Nicki Minaj fart thread and the shaving with a blowtorch thread, so all I can say is:

 

[TVC]

The torus at the top of the picture reminded me -

I'll have a 250kV Tesla coil to play with in January.

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I get paid to run 120kV discharge tests on transformers. So much fun on high humidity days when you get frequent air path breakdown between the connection nodes. Who doesn't like indoor lightning?

 

[vernon]

I get paid to run 120kV discharge tests on transformers. So much fun on high humidity days when you get frequent air path breakdown between the connection nodes. Who doesn't like indoor lightning?

Me if I'm the earthing point.

 

[slowmotion]

Jetex fuse made excellent detonators for my home-made bombs when I was a teenager. You just short circuit them using a command wire and a motorbike battery.

 

[TVC]

Me if I'm the earthing point.

Best avoided, it can sting.

 

[cosmicbike]

I get paid to run 120kV discharge tests on transformers. So much fun on high humidity days when you get frequent air path breakdown between the connection nodes. Who doesn't like indoor lightning?

That's fun. I had to go to Budapest to do that a couple of years back, failing HV transformers is quite interesting