Got an idea for your fireworks!!

[McColm]

Hi,
The closet anyone has got to flying their Whiff is either an R/C model or on a computer game/CGI. I was thinking along the lines of using a firework as a launching platform or booster. Just use gaffer tape, light the fuse and stand well back.
Now I'm not suggesting you use one of your best models for this as it might breakup on landing. And I'm not sure either where your model would land, this would depend on the size/shape and the amount of powder used in your chosen firework.
Well that's your fixed wing aircraft and rockets taken care of.
Boats, ships and other vehicles could have the firework attached to the sides.

[PR19_Kit]

I did that once when I was a kid............

I had a Revell 'fit the box' B-47, which must have been around 1/130 scale or so, but had a very fragile undercarriage. My brother and I decided, after repairing the wing-tip wheels a zillion times, that we'd send it into orbit as a sort 'funeral of fire' and so attached it to one of the biggest rockets we could find in those days, stuck it in the usual milk bottle half-buried in the garden, lit the blue touch paper and stood back. With a 'WHOOOSH' the rocket lifted off, accelerated into its climb and maybe 100 ft off the ground went into a huge outside loop! It made about 270 deg of the loop, so that it was pointing horizontally, and then shot off down the row of back gardens in our road at around 50 ft up. As it reached the end of the street the thing blew, shooting red, green and yellow stars all over the place and into our neighbour's gardens, so we took a low profile after that.

2-3 days later the bloke at the end of the road asked my Dad if we'd been '....flying one of your lad's models....' as he'd found a bit of one in his garden! 

I never did find out what bit and how much of it was left.

[NARSES2]

A few Airfix kits were sent on suicide missions from the top of my mates block of flats with bangers attached and yes we did try the attaching a model to a rocket once. Problem was the bottle toppled over (didn't know of the half buried trick in S London) and it attacked my mum. Must of been a heat seeker as it kept folowing her whichever way she turned 

Putting a banger in an old Eagle ship kit and setting her afloat in S Norwood Lake to re-enact the Battle of the River Plate was good fun as well 

[McColm]

Sounds like great fun. The guys from TopGear once tried this, but on a much larger scale.

[Green Dragon]

A couple of mates and I fitted three rockets to an Airfix Halifax (one each to light up!) stuck it on a plank of wood and launched it in the Fairfield in Kingston. It took off well but one of the rockets went off late sending it spinning like a Catherine Wheel about five feet above the ground and about seven or eight feet in front of us. Don't remember seeing it blow coz we were all hoofing it in the opposite direction heading for the fence!
Blew up lots more since then!

[NARSES2]

If we saw kids doing some of this stuff now we'd mutter "young hooligans" - was the world a simpler place or just naive. Apologies for the philosophy but I'm in that sort of mood 

[Old Wombat]

If we saw kids doing some of this stuff now we'd mutter "young hooligans"

I might say that... but I'd do it with a wry grin!

[McColm]

The possiblities are endless.