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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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