One for the anti-christ (ok, anti-gatso)

[WoodE]

Does anyone remember those silly little 'fly wheels' you get on a plactic stick which spin round in the wind that you used to get from sea sides, a bit like windmills on sticks... anyway... here's my theory.

If everyone invested a whole 50p in one of these (or several) and with a bit of spare time, blue tack (or selotape), and blue peter magic, we could all stick these ingenious things to the front of Gatso's (preferably at night when there's no one around), and leave it there to flash away until the plod figures it out in the morning, or they notice its constant flashing....

Lets face it, we get enough wind in winter to power them for a lifetime..

Just my tuppence worth.

[richb]

But why would a plastic windmill make the Gatso flash?

[mel]

No but an aluminium one might !

[mel]

or even if you loveingly covered the blades in tin foil in true blue peter fashion.

[JonRB]

Amazing - when I was working on the M25 system we needed to use a very expensive "radar mill" which was a spinning metal disk with little bars of metal attached like teeth at right-angles to the disk. The disk was then pointed side-on at the camera system and spun at a certain speed to simulate the radar return from an object moving at a given speed.

If only we'd known that a child's toy windmill would have sufficed we might have delivered the system on schedule.

Edited by JonRB on Friday 9th November 10:56