Chinese Flying Candle Lantern

[Ty55]

How do I build a Chinese Flying Candle lantern

[Mortartube]

Do you mean Khoom Fay, like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6j_gPLnnUY

It is easier and cheaper to buy them. You can get them for around �5.00 ready to fly. It will cost you more than that in tissue paper alone. Brighton Fireworks sell them. Try here

http://www.brightonfireworks.com/khoomfay.htm

They can be prone to failure if you make them yourself (you have to fireproof the tissue) and they need a LOT more tissue paper than most people allow for.

[Panic Button]

Looks like a good way to set light to your neighbours shed, or scare the wits out of the aircraft heading for the airport.

[Mortartube]

Actually Panic-Button, the bought ones are quite hard to get the tissue to burn, as it is so well fireproofed. They go up quite a long way, and you will usually lose sight of them before the fuel pad burns out. They are great and very safe if you are sensible with them, i.e use them in fairly still or very low strength breeze and don't do them in the middle of a housing estate. They don't really pose much of a risk to aircraft, a bird strike would be far more likely than one of these to be a problem to aircraft.

[Mortartube]

If you really are set on making your own, here's how to do it from a pyrotechnics book by George Weingart (pages 148 - 152), although it is safer, cheaper and easier to buy one.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7b5GkvnYlrg C&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=weingart+fire+balloon& source=web&ots=p2qOYKWS-_&sig=cjHj1DmzSjgEaazk 7Ssa8_MK1e0&hl=en#PPA152,M1