If you have no plans for Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, 2008, jet - why don't you join us when we go for the first time to the annual Punkin Chunkin World Championship in Bridgeville, Delaware. What this is all about? Pumkin shooting with sophisticated, powerful machines. The goal for the contestants and engineers of those monstrous machines is to shoot/fly undamaged pumkins as far as possible through the air into a target field. The machines fall into several technical categories such as Air Cannon, Centrifugal, Catapult, Trebuchet, Human Power, and Torsion. If you want to see how they look like and how they work (if they work), have a look at the action in the video clips on the left hand side. The challenge is to apply maximum power on the naturally grown pumkins without smashing them to puree before the travel through the skies. What a wonderful and relatively harmless way to be creative with mechanics.
See pumpkin cannons from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIf0zLIlDbM or 'sling machine' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhtFXB-3XHk
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