Road sign of terror
We had a design project to built some sort of unpowered flying machine, at the end of which we’d test them to see who’s flew the furthest. We had to work in pairs so my friend Pete and I spent weeks lovingly building an aeroplane/glider thing. With a wingspan of about 1m (big plank of foamex plastic) and a natty paintjob it was a thing of beauty. Unfortunately, due to the fact that it weighed a tone and we knew sod all about aerodynamics, it didn’t exactly fly well. On the day of the competition we panicked. Ran into the store cupboard, grabbed a bit of foamex, cut it into a triangle (for no reason) and then cut a triangle out of the middle (again, no particular reason) to make a weird triangular aerobie thing that you could fling like some sort of boomerang/give way sign. Not only did it win the competition by miles, it also turned out to be utterly lethal – embedding itself in the grass a good 6 inches. Within a couple of hours the entire class had made one each resulting in a sort of oversized ninja star fight which broke two windows and sent one boy to hospital with a very nasty gash on his arm.

I got a B
(Alphabet Soap boshboshboshbosh, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 14:43, Reply)