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Falcon 3 – Bombs away!

The Falcon series continues. After Falcon 1, Brennan and I decided to build more projects every couple of weeks and they would follow the the crafty naming convention Falcon 1, Falcon 2, Falcon 3, etc. Well, here we are at Falcon 3. What happened to Falcon 2? It was a failed attempt at making a boat in response to needing to beef up home defense per @cp2 “@danaedwards need it for defense when we get to 25% unemployment”. I guess that was part of the motivation and the other part is that it was just fun and I got to explain how it worked to Brennan who has not stopped playing with it since we finished.

Building this took about 30 minutes, 9 popsicle sticks, a pair of scissors (or utility knife), a roll of tape, a rubber band, a pen and a ruler.

catapult supplies

I’ll post the steps to build a little later as they are intricate.  Here was Brennan’s video of the second firing of it:

-Dana