In reply to Kyle Mcallister's message of Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:21:33 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >1. If it is overpressure, why isn't it going out the >easier path, between the PVC pipe and the steel >sphere? It is not air tight...there's a decent gap >there that one could stick a screwdriver in. Much >lower air resistance there. >2. How does the air impulse, if that is what it is, >maintain coherence over a distance, in such an >apparently beamlike fashion? Is this like the old >WHAM-O air vortex launchers? >3. Put some smoke in the tube and see what comes out? >Smoke rings? Put smoke around the device as it fires, >an see what way things are moved around? [snip] ...all sounds good to me. If it turns out not to be air, then you might try putting different types of material in front of it, to see if there are some it will pass through.
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