Drum Firing

[n2ize]

What about this idea. You cut away a 55 gallon drum and mount an engine in it. The engine drives a propeller which sticks outside the front of the drum. You angle the drum on a launching device in the middle of a large muddy field. At laaunch time you rev the engine to achieve max thrust and you release the drum. It is propelled forward and upward and eventually downward till it hits the field. The field is marked in yards like a football field. The drum that travels the farthest from the launch point wins.

This could be the greatest thing since tobacco spitting and cow chip chucking.

[WA4TM]

Sounds a lot like punkin chunkin'.. You know firing pumpkins out of air cannons.. I seem to remember the record was near 4000 ft..... I may have the distance wrong, it was on Discovery channel a few years back...

[n2ize]

Sounds a lot like punkin chunkin'.. You know firing pumpkins out of air cannons.. I seem to remember the record was near 4000 ft..... I may have the distance wrong, it was on Discovery channel a few years back...

Just checked out some videos on it. Seems they use both cannons and catapults. Looks like fun time.

[WA4TM]

One one show they were using the catapults to fling cars, and I was surprised in how far they went....

[WA4TM]

Of course it was hell on paint jobs!!!!

[KG4CGC]

Build it, do it, video it, post it on Youtube.

[WØTKX]

Here's a much classier concept... Gawd I loved this show! Yeah!

http://youtu.be/rJgt-HO0_kY

[WØTKX]

This was done for realsies at Burning Man...

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs




So, how about flinging Heathkit Sixers and Twoers?

[W1GUH]

Lotsa people with way too much time.....?

[W1GUH]

This was done for realsies at Burning Man...

http://youtu.be/X5mqgtXoIxs




So, how about flinging Heathkit Sixers and Twoers?

That's small potatoes......Valients, Apaches, DX-100's, GPT-750's, KW-1's, T-368's.