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Re: Disc Lauching Velocity

With our latest shooter setup, we measured frisbee exit velocity very roughly with a 60fps camera as well as launch surface speed (under no load) with an optical tachometer. When making 3pters from 30" directly above the auto line, we measured an exit speed of roughly 2400 ft/min (+/- a few hundred), with the launch surface going about 6000 ft/min under no load (one-sided with no noticable slip, so you can see there is some spin down in our implementation, but it spun back up within a second). These numbers are lower than we had previously been estimating, but hey that's why we test.
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