5. Elastic Plane Race

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Challenge Poster:

This registration form needs filling out just before your entry is sent to us. You will need to include your name inside the package so that we know whose is whose!

https://forms.gle/M2zoSE4HHs77EJC37

Clarifications to the rules are listed below. This will be kept up to date, so please ensure your design complies to avoid disqualification – any questions post in the Facebook Group (link below) 👍

ww.facebook.com/groups/fieldhousechallenges/

  1. Entry can expand beyond the 200x200x200mm after it is triggered.
  2. It’s fine to touch the floor and roll along it, just don’t generate thrust from it.
  3. Everything used to Power Up the vehicle must remain attached to the vehicle, this process must be human powered with no other energy supplies.
  4. The trigger can not just be that the person launching it holds the propeller. There has to be a latch to hold the stored energy before it is triggered.
  5. Materials that are less dense than air are allowed.
  6. In the 1 minute preparation time you cannot use the human power to directly or indirectly pressurise air.