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Loose Cannon & the Gun Show Collective
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Team 1,800 Lbs brought back the spectacular 12-foot wheels of Loose Cannon with the circus human cannonball motif. The elevated pilots’ platform—which looks to be a rowboat—provides flotation for the water segment. Since this sculpture nearly missed major awards, yet is a magnificent crowd- and photographer-pleasing spectacle we also award this sculpture the Webmaster’s Delight. |
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They also built two new sculptures as scale replicas of the original. Since the new sculptures could hardly get any bigger, they made them smaller. The half-scale Sun of a Gun and quarter-scale Mini Gun formed one group at the starting line, called the Gun Show Collective. |
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Cans jangled behind Sun of a Gun with a “Just Married” sign to commemorate the recent nuptials of pilots Kristin and Dave. |
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Lubrication on turnbuckle threads ruined their pre-race spoke truing. The cobblestones around the National Katyn Memorial wrought havoc on the tensioners, and a pilot here twists them tighter—but accurately truing 12-foot wheels during a race is as hard as it sounds. They ended up winning the Next-to-Last award, which rather precludes the potential of winning an engineering award. Recommended for next year: mouse the turnbuckles. |
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In the mud, one of the pilots climbed from spoke to spoke like a ladder using his weight for additional propulsion. |
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The Collective came from 1800 Lbs, which in past years created
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