• Question: If you were stranded on an island with the parts to make a plane (but you not allowed to make a plane or boat or submarine) what would you make?

    Asked by cool-whip-2 to Hilly, Lee, Liz, Tadhg, Yasmin on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Yasmin Ali

      Yasmin Ali answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Can I build a jet pack :)?!

      If the island was nice and I decided to stay, I would build some shelter and some stuff to hunt with.

    • Photo: Liz Meddings

      Liz Meddings answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      I would make a nice shack and a handcart to carry food in. Is it a crashed commercial liner? If so, my shack would have a balcony on which I’d sit on drinking miniatures from the bar and I’d hook up on of the TVs to watch films on when I get bored of sunsets.

    • Photo: Tadhg O'Donovan

      Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Well I think I’d have all the parts to make a gas fired power plant – but I wouldn’t do that. It’s a fresh start in an unspoiled unpolluted island – I think I’d have to find a stream and make a hydro-electic power plant using the turbine blades in the jet engine.

    • Photo: Lee Margetts

      Lee Margetts answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      If there was no power, I’d use the pressurized air canisters (that are used in an emergency if the cabin depressurizes) to drive a dynamo (made from other bits and pieces) to power the radio and send out a distress signal. Whilst waiting to be rescued, I’d take some of the nets that hold magazines off the back of the seats and make a fishing net. After catching some fish, I’d have a barbecue and relax watching the sun set.

    • Photo: David Hill

      David Hill answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I’d probably just build a tree-house like the one in Swiss Family Robinson – if I could survive on a desert island, living in a tree-house like that… I’d be quite content at that! 🙂

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