YouTuber Fulfills Lifelong Dream by Blasting Through the Sound Barrier With a Home-Built Trebuchet
YouTuber Tom Stanton has, by his own telling, been building trebuchets since the age of 12. The weight is attached to one end of an arm that pivots on a fulcrum; at the other end of that arm is a sling in which the projectile is placed. As the weight falls, it pulls its end of the arm down with it.
- ▪YouTuber Tom Stanton has, by his own telling, been building trebuchets since the age of 12.
- ▪The weight is attached to one end of an arm that pivots on a fulcrum; at the other end of that arm is a sling in which the projectile is placed.
- ▪As the weight falls, it pulls its end of the arm down with it.
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YouTuber Tom Stanton has, by his own telling, been building trebuchets since the age of 12. The adult Stanton is an aerospace engineer, but trebuchets clearly remain his passion—and in the intro to his latest video, he explains that “accelerating a projectile to [the speed of sound in air] using a purely mechanical launcher like a trebuchet has been a dream of mine for several years now.” Come for the big dreams, stay for the fascinating engineering, because for all the exuberant nerdiness of a man in cargo shorts doing an impromptu dance at hearing a sonic boom reverberate across his backyard, there are some genuinely interesting pieces of design and problem solving here.
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