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Video of a pressurized air pumpkin cannon being fired. "Yankee Siege" trebuchet, from New Hampshire, at 2008 Punkin' Chunkin' World Championship Punkin Chunkin (WCPC) was the name of an annual contest held the first full weekend after Halloween in Delaware from 1986 through 2013 and in 2016. It was also held in 2019 in Illinois and is scheduled ...
West Texas A&M hosted its annual Pumpkin Chunkin contest Thursday afternoon, pitting student teams’ designs against each other to deliver pumpkins downrange, with an emphasis on accuracy.
According to the Punkin Chunkin website, the contest has been around since at least 2001, the first year for which results are posted. In addition to tossing pumpkins, the event also includes ...
The catapult system for roller coasters has been replaced by flywheels and later linear motors. Pumpkin chunking is another widely popularized use, in which people compete to see who can launch a pumpkin the farthest by mechanical means (although the world record is held by a pneumatic air cannon).
The giant-pumpkin contest kicks off events on Columbus Day, and they’re capped by the weekend festival, which has put the town on the map. Now going into its 52nd edition, the festival draws ...
The weekend after Halloween, Sussex County hosted the World Championship Punkin Chunkin, where pumpkins were shot from devices such as air-powered cannons, trebuchets, catapults, and various other contraptions. The performance of various styles and classes of devices was supplemented by food booths and musical performances.
Pumpkin chunking is a competitive activity in which teams build various mechanical devices designed to throw a pumpkin as far as possible. Catapults, trebuchets, ballistas and air cannons are the most common mechanisms. [57]
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