Model airplane engine made of paper.... that runs! - Page 3

**papermate** · #21 04-04-2022, 09:31 PM

Nice one. April Fool 1st can be also on the second crossing the international time zone.

**Astroboy** · #22 04-05-2022, 06:17 AM

I knew it all along.

**Rata** · #23 04-05-2022, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Astroboy

I knew it all along.

Uh huh. Me too. Sort of.....

**murphyaa** · #24 04-05-2022, 08:06 PM

Darn, and I spent the whole day trying to puzzle out how a paper engine would actually work. I got as far as something like a potato cannon, or possibly some type of pulsejet.

**mbauer** · #25 04-05-2022, 11:18 PM

Nobody even mentioned a working paper engine.

Estes engines are paper wrapped around a clay nozzle on one end, and full of pyro-technical device in the middle.

I was thinking: a single impulse paper engine might be possible. Small chamber filled with hair spray. Small hole to let hairspray weep out of chamber. Light a match and watch it go. Paper soaked in No Burn will probably work. Paper will not burn with this stuff applied. Really small chamber so flames/bang won't be too big. Hole big enough to let burning gases escape without bursting chamber.

Mike

**Viator** · #26 04-06-2022, 01:05 AM

BTW, the only cardmodel of an engine which runs for real being powered by some kind of fuel was a merry-go-round. Replacing candles with, say, the black painted lightbulb and adding the case we can imitate the aeroplane's turbine engine but it must be set vertical to work

**Viator** · #27 04-06-2022, 02:16 AM

...However, as we know it is not impossible to boil water in the paper cup - maybe some steam engine...? Not for a plane but still sounds interesting...

**Willie1914** · #28 04-06-2022, 05:35 AM

... intersting

**KCStephens** · #29 04-06-2022, 07:13 AM

This reminds me of when I was a kid, we would make match rockets using a sewing needle and tin foil.

**murphyaa** · #30 04-06-2022, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Viator

BTW, the only cardmodel of an engine which runs for real being powered by some kind of fuel was a merry-go-round. Replacing candles with, say, the black painted lightbulb and adding the case we can imitate the aeroplane's turbine engine but it must be set vertical to work

We had something like this when I was growing up, except it was wood (really heavy paper) and had a Christmas Nativity theme.