Chinese Lantern

[Stork_III]

Can anybody on the ECF give advice on successful launching of Chinese Lanterns? and do they foul your prop entering the lock at Shotley?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Can anybody on the ECF give advice on successful launching of Chinese Lanterns? and do they foul your prop entering the lock at Shotley?

Nope..... and I hope not, as a good two dozen were dumped in there after unsuccessfull launches on NYE....

 

[Ianqv]

LAUNCH

They do take a bit to get going!!

I use a blow touch ( the type you'd use for diy plumbing) once filled - lite the wick and away you go!!!!

 

[Stork_III]

Nope..... and I hope not, as a good two dozen were dumped in there after unsuccessfull launches on NYE....

I did notice that on NYE, I'm waiting for advice from FC who seemed to be the expert (not).

 

[CliveG]

We managed to get one up from the Father-in-Law's in Bristol on New Years Eve.
It took quite a while to inflate from the wick.
It cleared the houses to other side of the road but then the top folded over and then seemed to start burning.
It landed in the field behind the houses with no ill effect to property.

There where a lot of these drifting over some a a great height.
One was found on the roof of the FiL's workshop the following morning.

 

[sailorman]

We managed to get one up from the Father-in-Law's in Bristol on New Years Eve.
It took quite a while to inflate from the wick.
It cleared the houses to other side of the road but then the top folded over and then seemed to start burning.
It landed in the field behind the houses with no ill effect to property.

There where a lot of these drifting over some a a great height.
One was found on the roof of the FiL's workshop the following morning.

i was moored up @ Wrabness early last year wondered what the hell they were
dozens of em

 

[leomagill]

Fly tippers are bad enough, why do people have to turn their rubbish into an incendary device before dumping their litter on the rest of the world?
As you can guess I don't like them.

 

[Cantata]

CG get a bit p**d off too when folk report them as distress flares and the poor old local volunteer CG team get turned out to go and have a look.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

CG get a bit p**d off too when folk report them as distress flares and the poor old local volunteer CG team get turned out to go and have a look.

I think that evening, they may have been somewhat outdone on that basis by the hundreds of fireworks set off over Harwich that they gracefully drifted towards!