Sunday saw us turn the clocks back to our childhood when toys and friendly competition were rife. The toys of the day were these rubber band powered balsa wood planes, known in Antarctic circles as "Hangar Rats", that we spent the afternoon throwing around the wallow.
A number people went to special effort to decorate or modify their planes in some wonderful attempts to win the prestigious design award. There was replica Israeli insignia, a Red Baron, the Green Hornet and the official station airline, however the winner was the triplane by Mark J.
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| Triplane |
The first flights were cheered well, but there were some early problems as planes crashed into walls and rubber bands broke. The first casualty only took two flights. Chad's plane lots its wings on about the third flight and he spent the rest of the time launching it like a missile at the other planes. After about an hour of flying the planes and everyone getting tired from walking up and down the stairs, Mike decided to try and shoot down the competition. In the end, despite a few disintegrations, the most spectacular crash was awarded to Allan for his especially destructive wall-sled-stairs-floor flight.
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| Green Hornet with what look like fried eggs |
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| The Triplane crashes |
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| Getting the plane out of a ski |
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| The Israeli plane gets stuck |
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| Official station airlines |
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| Jeremy and his double wing creation |
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| Someone's cheating |
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| The aftermath of destruction |
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| Sadly, the Green Hornet didn't survive as the sheer power from the rubber band tore the fuselage apart. The Triplane and Ninja airlines survived. |
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| Red Baron is hiding away, ready to pounce |
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| We tried one outside and even then these planes don't land well |
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