The Fish Plane
I’ve started building a plane for rainy-day flying. Instead of a balsa skeleton, I’m using fish bones. Covering is yellow oilcloth.
Battery and all electronics are potted in epoxy, finished with four coats of spar varnish.
Not sure what to do about wings. Need a good photo of a flying fish.
Instead of an airplane prop, I’m using a three-bladed boat prop on a very long shaft, with the motor buried in a waterproof compartment in the gizzard of the fish.
It’ll probably be heavy, but it might keep me flying in these nasty rainstorms.
Tags: Airplanes, Baylands, Life, Water.
January 5th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Wow… Weird.
You got it bad Pete. And to think this just the first storm of the year.
Don
January 5th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
What about pontoons?
-Chris
January 6th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I thought that was basically the point behind the CX2. I’m sure you could cobble up a fish canopy.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
It would need a “Not a real fish” sign or scent to keep birds from flying off with it.
dt
January 6th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I like the idea of a sign better. I think birds are more visually oriented, in spite of the research into the vulture’s ability to sniff out carrion from quite a distance.
Seems like it’s nice if the guys smell good, but they’d sure better have some fancy duds.