Gino's Toasted Pumpkin

[Schme1440]

Originally Posted by clickerati

I think any Brainiac archery experiment needs to be well attended by AIUKers in our AIUK gear!

As for the Olympic clip, it's hard to tell. It does look close, tho. I think the thing you see fall behind is just sparks. Who knows for sure, though.

Barcelona anyone?

I saw a pic taken once from a higher angel and it showed the arrow going clear over the bowl by about 5 meters. From the stadium level it was hard to tell but this pic I once saw it claerly showed the arrow going clean over the top. I may be wrong?

[Dante]

Originally Posted by ruthmc

Thanks for posting Gino!

Really made my day (and gave me lots of ideas )

Ruth

Are you doing the barbecue at the next meeting

Excellent pictures

[gino]

Originally Posted by Schme1440

I saw a pic taken once from a higher angel and it showed the arrow going clear over the bowl by about 5 meters. From the stadium level it was hard to tell but this pic I once saw it claerly showed the arrow going clean over the top. I may be wrong?

oh well, we'll just have to make sure that we don't miss for brainiac won't we?

Originally Posted by Dante

Are you doing the barbecue at the next meeting

I'd be happy to. It'd have to be a big BBQ for me to hit it though...
More like a bonfire I think.

Here's the pic that got corrupted originally. It's like the other one but a bit sharper because I didn't move as much and the wind didn't blow the flame around as much too. It looks like I'm bunching up my shoulder but I promise it's just my jacket, my technique is better than it looks :S

[compkiller]

Originally Posted by Schme1440

I saw a pic taken once from a higher angel and it showed the arrow going clear over the bowl by about 5 meters. From the stadium level it was hard to tell but this pic I once saw it claerly showed the arrow going clean over the top. I may be wrong?

Your not wrong. Saw a vid of that from the reverse angle. Arrow went straight over the bowl which must have been lit thru normal means. If there had been a gas cloud high enough for the flames to ignite it, it would have been far more spectacular.

[English Bowman]

Unfortuantely there are no good photos of it, but Purbrook Bowmen recently lit the bonfire at Sigleton Weald & Dowland Museum's fire event
It was great fun, I'll post pics if I can get hold of any worth posting.

Daniel

[English Bowman]

Originally Posted by Schme1440

Sweet thats awsome. I reckon we you should send the pics and vids to Brainiac and suggest you could blow up a caravan with a flaming arrow. Just get em to fill up the Caravan with something explosive. Black powder would work well.

Sorry, it wouldn't. Black powder doesn't explode, it jsut burns very fast. To make it explode you have to have it in a sealed chamber, such as a wadded gun barrel, otherwise all it will do is give a flash, but no bang. The Brainiac episode with the exploding caravan full of powder was faked.
I can also say that the archery experiments that they did were scripted, and manipulated to achieve the results that they wanted. I know this to be true, because I was the archer that they used, and I was told that to "prove" that it was impossible to shoot through the axes I had to shoot through the first pair and hit the second. I also had as many arrows as I needed to split the arrow. (and I needed a few I can tell you)
The shooting the apple off the dummy's head, that did happen as you see it.

Daniel

[English Bowman]

Got some pics of Singleton,

What we were shooting at


Firing the arrows (The only time you'll hear me talking about firing an arrow!)





And the finished result

[clickerati]

A man holding his longbow is a thing of beauty!

[trish]

wow they are soooo cool!!! can i have a go, pleease!!

[gino]

Finally: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...97782347161198

This is just the opening footage of the video. When the whole thing is finished I'll let you see it.