JETS

[Shinkirou]

As in the club type thing, for those of you who don't know what JETS is, you can read about it at the Wikipedia article for the Junior Engineering Technical Society.

I decided to participate in JETS this year, because my school seemed a little short on members, so I thought I would take a shot at it. For the past three or four weeks I've been working (with three other people) on a trebuchet which we went to a competition for today. (Hooray no school)
For our first year my group didn't do bad, our trebuchet shot 71 feet at it's best which is pretty good for a first attempt in my opinion.

I took some pictures after we left the competition, sadly I forgot to take some right before we fired it, but oh well.

Warning; big images.

Spoiler

So that was what I did most of today, that and since we got back early from the competition,and nobody wanted to go back to school, I got to play Rockband at my teachers house. :tongue:
(Bit random thread, I know. Just felt like posting about it because I'm random like that. xD)

 

[Reality]

Looks like fun

Looks sort of like the catapult I saw in England, except a lot smaller :roflmao:

 

[Shinkirou]

Trebuchets and catapults are a good bit different. :tongue:

It was a lotta fun though, hopefully my school does it next year. There's been rumors that the teacher that coordinates it might not do it next year. >.<

 

[Reality]

Well... you could always lead it :thumbsup:

 

[Shinkirou]

I don't know enough to be able to help people build theirs. :/

 

[Reality]

 

[Xypher_mybb_import11505]

I love making mini-trebuchets. I used to have a bunch of really small ones for launching marbles, I also had a lego one... It didn't work out so well...

 

[Reality]

wait..

What's it do? :huh:

Didn't see it in the Wiki.

 

[Xypher_mybb_import11505]

They are normally about 100-200 feet tall and were used, mostly by the French, to slaughter Stone Walls, towers, and castles. They were the Nuke of their time.

 

[Life_mybb_import11509]

Last year for a science project 2 kids in my grade built a trebuchet about 20 feet tall. It was insane, I didn't get to see it fire though.

Yours is pretty big, nice job.

 

[Shinkirou]

Ours is roughly 5'4" in height with the arm straight up, and a little bit less then a 6x6 box in width.
The requirements for the competition are that it has to be 5'6" or shorter with the arm straight up, has to fit into a 6x6 box, and you can't stand inside the box (which they outline) while firing it.