Packaging Foam

The packaging from our cooker says that it is definitely 100% re-cyclable. Our Refuse Collector (Dustman in better days) reckoned that if they'd spotted it in our bin, they would have left the bin unemptied. There's a lot of it and as the local tip has closed, it sort of begs the question.......what to do with it.

How about............


A competition for the best model aeroplane made with foam packaging from items received during the "Lockdown"?


No tight specs., any form of propulsion, in fact anything goes as long as it gets airborne for at least 20 seconds. That means you can't just lob a lump of foam ballasted with a fishing weight into the air.

No time limit so you have stacks of time to order (no BangGood items please!).

I'll offer a prize of a 3D printed model aeroplane to be chosen by the winner, the finished weight of the printed model to be no more than 600 g

Good idea BUT I am not going to buy (or would like) that Samsung 60 inch 4K TV just for the excellent packaging that is quite firm and would make a brilliant flying wing. :lol: I don't suppose a wing from B&Q insulation foam counts? As below.

The model has to be built from packaging foam acquired during "Lockdown"

Brian wrote: The model has to be built from packaging foam acquired during "Lockdown"

Damn! I thought I might get away with it. I will see what I can find.......