Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/13

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Subject: [Leica] P 51 Flight time reminder. :-)
From: neal at nairobisafari.com (Neal Friedenthal)
Date: Fri May 13 10:26:36 2005
 
>We did it with an Airfix HMS Victorious, the aircraft carrier. Emptied the 
>powder out of half a dozen bangers into the hull, added some grindings from 
>a 
>pencil sharpener (pure magnesium!!) and put a whole banger in as a 
>detonator, it 
>floated beautifully on the local pond - at first!
>Douglas

My best one was with a 3"long model of the USS Constitution. She was fully 
rigged with cloth sails.  Put her in the water with a cherry bomb in the 
center hatch. She took on enough water (two piece 
hull) so she was stable in the water, a slight breeze came up and she heeled 
over a bit and ran with the wind. Then, KaBloom, she split amid ships and 
sank,, looked like something out of a movie,, it 
was beautiful man!!