Disney Goes Boom! 198
BoomZilla writes "Reading Disney's alliteratively titled Practically
Perfect Pyrotechnics introduces the latest in firework launch technology.
Gone are the 'light blue touch paper and retire a safe distance' days. Shells
are now launched using compressed air. No burning black powder means no smoke
drifting over the residential neighborhoods, plus a safer show. Best of all the
new system is more precise and can launch shells higher than black powder,
enabling spectacular new effects. An additional article:
The future of theme park fireworks
covers some of the pros and cons of compressed air launch systems." We mentioned this earlier.
What? They use Bluetooth? (Score:3, Interesting)
I imagine... (Score:4, Interesting)
Does Eisner know about this...??? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Beer-can mortars anyone? (Score:5, Interesting)
Slightly more on-topic though, a friend of mine has a real nice compressed air potato gun that has an electronically triggered poppet valve. Despite the fact that his gun cost much more and is so much more complex, mine shoots more rapidly, farther, and louder. They both get a nice cloud of smoke out the barrel after the shot though. His because of the rapid decompression, and mine because of the burning hairspray. Surprisingly, we have mutual respect for each other's designs and we don't really compete with each other so much as help with design and construction problems.
My next gun will be compressed air, and once I figure it out with PVC, I'm moving on to stainless steel to hopefully get a supersonic potato (or other projectile) gun
old news twice over (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Looks Great, Less Smogging (Score:4, Interesting)
Black powder has its advantages (Score:2, Interesting)
Disney is losing. (Score:4, Interesting)
They've been hemoraging cash on movies though
Darn right:
Re:LIES, LIES, LIES (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:INteresting fact (Score:4, Interesting)
Supposedly it had smog from campfires when it was inhabited by native Americans.