How to make a "fly"ing plane.

May 5, 2005 7:25 AM

How to make a "fly"ing plane.
posted by zardoz (24 comments total)

Forgot to give props. Via Linkswarm.
posted by zardoz at 7:26 AM on May 5, 2005

That's wicked -- and I'm not sure in what way I mean that.
I like this at the top of the page:
Stop STDs Now. Protect your jimmy. -- they must be spanish flies..
posted by peacay at 7:32 AM on May 5, 2005

Jeff Goldblum not included.
posted by SteveInMaine at 7:33 AM on May 5, 2005

I reckon this is what Gloucester had in mind in King Lear.
posted by anapestic at 7:36 AM on May 5, 2005

Dear Lord, that's old! I remember the Flyplane from back around 1996 or 7. Funny how some crap sticks around and some disappears.
posted by TheGoldenOne at 7:40 AM on May 5, 2005

Does it actually fly?
posted by jsavimbi at 7:42 AM on May 5, 2005

old
posted by angry modem at 7:45 AM on May 5, 2005

oh oh...PETA is not going to like this.
posted by fluffycreature at 8:12 AM on May 5, 2005

Reminds me of the whole frozen bee on a string thing.
posted by Plutor at 8:23 AM on May 5, 2005

Forgot to give props
Not necessary. You have flies.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:19 AM on May 5, 2005

None of them will have experienced anything like this before!

That's a safe bet.
posted by bachelor#3 at 9:22 AM on May 5, 2005

I don't have an emotional attachment to flies or anything, but stuff like this is mean, even if you're only(?) hurting little insects that most people don't like much. Bad karma.
posted by dammitjim at 9:32 AM on May 5, 2005

I would never try it myself (poor flies), but has anyone actually done this before?
posted by klik99 at 10:13 AM on May 5, 2005

I had lost my link to this picture, first seen by me in 1998. Thanks for the fresh link.
posted by Four Flavors at 10:31 AM on May 5, 2005

When I was in high school, and meaner than I am now, I successfully put flies on long leashes made out of human hair. They'd fly in circles. Even then, though, this fly plane would have been too cruel for me.
posted by alms at 10:49 AM on May 5, 2005

No, no, they're *enjoying* it. Didn't you read the last caption?

Sit back and enjoy watching the happy flies playing with the plane! None of them will have experienced anything like this before!

Wheeeeeeeeeee!
posted by LordSludge at 11:42 AM on May 5, 2005

Reminds me of Gerald Durrell's rose-beetle man, and that was back in the '40s.
posted by Specklet at 12:25 PM on May 5, 2005

doesn't bode well for fliesharing.
posted by petebest at 12:46 PM on May 5, 2005

Nostalia. This was posted on mempool and circulated pretty heavily a few years ago.
posted by re_verse at 2:12 PM on May 5, 2005

Does anyone know who the artist is? I feel like I saw that back in the 80s in MAD or Bananas or something.
posted by wfrgms at 2:17 PM on May 5, 2005

Sadly from what I understand it won't work cuz the trigger to make a fly fly is to have its feet leave the ground. Flies don't actually think about flying they just jump up. These flies feet are glued to the wings. Their wings won't flap.
posted by Lex Tangible at 3:26 PM on May 5, 2005

If you reverse the "fuselage" matchstick, you can then light the head of the match without damaging the flies... Let the heat from the flame warm them up until they get active, then blow out the match. Plane takes off, and the smoking tail should leave a nice smoke trail. (of course this is all in theory of course...)

Forgot to give props
Not necessary. You have flies.
*rimshot*
posted by Snowflake at 3:41 PM on May 5, 2005

You know, I bet you could do much the same thing with four sparrows or other little birds.

Or it would be possible to make a little snail SUV. The possibilities are endless, the cruelty is bottomless, huzzah! Let's go torture stuff!
posted by fenriq at 4:07 PM on May 5, 2005

A better method is to glue male larval flies (maggots) to one plane, and female larval flies (maggottes) to another, and watch them grow up relating to each other in a whole new way!

...A more compassionate use of earth's wee ones (and more fun) than Sea Monkeys.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 11:24 PM on May 5, 2005