Four teams battled
for schlinging win
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showed us what engineering is all
about,” freshman mechanical engi
neering major Angel McMullen said.
Distance, accuracy and practical
ity decided the winner of Tuesday
night’s contest.
Each of the four designs had their
chance to bombard the unsuspecting
rugby team at the other end of the
field.
Two of the designs used varia
tions on the compressed air propul
sion system of the existing schlinger.
One used a steel chamber to col
lect the compressed air at the rear of a
plastic barrel.
The other also used a plastic tube
for a barrel and another tube slung
underneath to collect the compressed
air.
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vative.
One design was an industrial
slingshot powered by surgical rubber
with a still tube to launch the hot
dogs.
The final design was simply a
bow with a plunger arrow attached to
a launch tube for the hot dog.
The designs averaged $50 to $ 100
in cost, with the most expensive cost
i ing about $300.
The original Der Viener
Schlinger cost between $2,000 and
$10,000.
At the competition, the two pneu
matic designs tied for first place after
shooting the dogs 77 and 80 yards
down field.
The original schlinger could only
shoot the hot dog 47 yards, so both
designs roughly doubled the distance.
One oi the winning design teams,
Josh Pinkelman, Jason Pope, Jeff
Potter and Adam Pfeifer, used the
Internet to plan their design.
“It was a lot of fun working
together to make our ideas work,”
Pinkelman said.
Now Fairbury will meet with the
UNL faculty to determine which
aspects of the two winning designs
will be incorporated into the Fairbury
schlinger to reach the upper deck.
Everyone involved with the pro
ject viewed it as a success.
“The project taught creativity and
that is the most difficult thing to
teach,” Sicking said.
Fairbury president Tom Roode
was also pleased.
“This is a great marketing tool for
us,” he said.
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