Spitfire Smoke Bomb

I did this same thing with my ft flyer for the 4 th. I used round smoke bombs From dallor tree and a paper towel roll lined with tinfoil and a small peace of balsa to keep it form melting the plane..
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I've seen crazier, but only here on FT (wouldn't mind seeing the smoke bomb end with an äxplöööuschönn). Thanks for entertaining!
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I appreciate how David said, "Please shoot video" instead of saying "film" your flights. Love your guys' stuff every time!
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wow awesome dudes thanks for the laugh..... I still wanna see how manty multicopters it takes to lift Josh Scott challenge time!!!!!
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I propose a challenge. This one is for our favorite Swede

Make a smoke system using a hot wire(contained in a cylinder exiting the bottom of the plane), smoke oil(I can get it at the local hobby shop), a small pump,(???) a small tank,(also from hobby shop or hobby king) and a small brushed esc(hobby king ect). Have the smoke pump spray the oil onto the hot wire coils contained in a tube, the oil would evaporate into smoke and exit the bottom of the tube in a nice thick plume. That way you would be able to make smoke we can all see better then a smoke bomb.

Smoke systems have always been the province of large gas planes it would be nice to see a smaller setup for medium and small sized electrics. That we can all build and afford. Then we can show the gas guys that there is nothing electric planes can't do.

Now cue the cheesy A Team theme and get to the basement.

And as always have fun

Jonathan
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If you want a really bad idea. I do mean 'bad idea' because I'm not going to try this and I did try to make a 'rocket plane' before. But apparently you can make a home made rocket engine by wrapping about 20 sparklers (the firework) with electrical tape. I guess the key is to leave an opening on one end for all of the power to escape from. You have to be careful though. This is the same method used to make a bomb out of sparklers. (Except the bomb is completely closed so the power has no place to go.)

I know David said he was going to re-do the rocket plane later. Using sparklers to fuel it would give you more control over just how powerful it is. (You can use more than 20.)
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Thank you guys for reading my comment about the music on the monday episode. It gave back the sense of the old flitetest but the music with the new twist was really cool! Keep it up, though I don't know if the AMA would like to see you guys with fireworks on a plane, but maybe not because they don't explode.
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Hey FT, these smoke bombs didn't show up that well. Maybe you could purchase a few other brands? I don't know if it would fit on the spitfire, but a brand called mammoth makes really good ones; they are on youtube- just search "mammoth smoke bombs."
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"Achtung! Spitfire!" was accent free German. Keep shocking Josh with that David :) .

Cheers
"Kraut Rob"
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Cool, but California doesn't allow for Safe a Sane fireworks all r year around only on 4th of July and in certain towns and municipalities. So you got to make your own goodies for you planes. Here is a good source for that http://www.skylighter.com/smoke-bombs.asp
This should be for adults not your kids who love to burn things down, be responsible with all lethal chemicals.

VikingPilot

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I found these http://rocketfireworks.ca/smokeemit5pk.html hopefully the guys will see this, up to 5 minute burn time and only weigh 18 grams, they also look to burn pretty vibrant colours, I'll definitely try them out!

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are they using the motor they suggest for the stock kit? I want to try this on an FT3D this 4th of July thx

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