Vortex Cannon

by FliteTest | April 10, 2013 | (18) Posted in Challenges


The Flite Test crew teamed up for a spot landing challenge as kids from the Stark County Urban League use vortex cannons to try to shoot down the planes!

We were flying airplanes from our speed build wappable series (The Nutball and FT Flyer) in our spot landing challenge. 

To make the large vortex cannons, we cut a hole in the bottom of a large trash can and covered the top with a plastic sheet. 

The vortex cannons are fired by hitting the top like a drum.  

We filled the cannons with fog so we could see the vortex rings.


You can find out more about the Greater Stark County Urban League HERE.
To find out more about our speed build swappable series Click Here.

COMMENTS

x3mperformance on April 10, 2013
Looks so much like BIG time fun.
Great initiative, and a big hand to the flitetest crew, sor yetr another great event among great kids.
Big Time and Really Big fun.
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thejosh108 on April 12, 2013
...Looks like its time for a powered vortex cannon, but not with the kids. ;) This seem like it would be amazing in large outdoor scale. Could just do it with the same planes but a very powerful vortex cannon.
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BirdMan9876 on May 2, 2014
Yea, the vortex cannons seemed a LITTLE underpowered! maybe a large outdoor scale would work better to nock down the planes. but it was still something for the little ones to do.
-Good Job, Keep up the good work!
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