The Fish Plane
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
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.
This is why you don’t...