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The Hot Dog Launcher: Everything You Always Wanted to Know

Posted November 26, 2008 11:46 AM

From Neatorama:

It's all about turkeys this time of year, blah blah blah. What about the hot dog? Slashfood found a great video about the effort it takes to design the Phillies' air cannon that shoots hot dogs at games. This is scientific stuff - they go through small trial runs and even position people in an otherwise empty stadium to gauge how far they can launch and figure out the angles. But you can see that they have a lot of fun with it. Even better, Red Tettemer, the ad agency that created the video, has redesigned their home page to reflect their dog dedication.

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11/26/2008 2:40 PM

Sounds like a fun project.

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11/28/2008 4:52 AM

Good to see some serious engineering for a change.

I feel they should maybe look at spin stabilisation...

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11/30/2008 12:50 AM

The hair-spray powered potato gun can fire the humble spud well over half a mile, but don't be in the line of fire.

In that video, the bread roll can be seen dropping out of the main trajectory soon after leaving the barrel, leaving the sausage as the only effective long-range missile.

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12/01/2008 5:09 PM

Kind of like a Discarding Sabot round for a tank shot...

Hmmm... if they could manage to mount the pickle spears as fins, it could be a HDPFSDS (AKA Hot dog-Pickle Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot round...).

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12/02/2008 3:29 PM

Mmmm....A sabot hot dog.....

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