For a couple of years now, PADT has had a tradition of shooting off pumpkin mortars on Halloween. Originally we took dry ice, sealed it with some water in a 2 Liter bottle, put it in a tube with a pumpkin on top and “bang-whooosh” a pumpkin goes a flying.
Being engineers, we have to improve on the process… this year we used foam wadding, put cameras inside foam “pumpkins” and tried launching an ice pumpkin. Here is the first attempt:
Look for more videos tomorrow.
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