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Electric Paper Plane Launcher – perfect for lectures


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The key to any experiment is repeatability. If an experiment can’t be duplicated, it can’t be verified, just ask the Cold Fusion people. Now if you’re a budding aerospace engineer and you need to test your plane designs then you need repeatability people. That’s where the Electric Plane Launcher comes in. Capable of launching planes at over 30 mph this should be all you need to start work on the new Concorde. Best of all it’s powered by 1 AA battery so you can sneak it into the back of the lecture hall for stealth missions. $US18.

Ready for take off. Take your paper airplane experience to electrifying new heights with The Electric Paper Plane Launcher! This fun kit was designed at Middlesex University, one of the leading design Universities in the UK. With simple assemble, you can discover how spinning motors and plastic discs can be used to launch a plane at over 30 mph! Imported. Wipe clean.

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3 Responses to “Electric Paper Plane Launcher – perfect for lectures”

  1. Julia says:

    Oh, dear.

    Let us hope the audience for the Ig Nobel prizes never discovers this.

    There may be unlikely aeronautical/ocular events.

  2. Dan says:

    Julia that’s no fun at all! Next they’ll bring out a law to stop me running around with scissors.

  3. Gary says:

    Why Io rder in Canada so expensive