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Re: G28 Clarification - Air Powered Shooter

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
Can already answer the first version. G28 does not preclude that use.

I'm having a hard time coming up with good wording, but something to the effect of using air to power the fuels motion offensively, but not defensively.

It could be clarified nicely if they have G28 not apply inside your own launchpad. This allows air shooters but not air defense.

Building off your second question (but still no easy answer), Where is the threshold between incidental air movement versus forced air movement.
I wonder if you were to design an air powered shooter with the end of the barrel working with a principle similar to a silencer... the air pressure would disperse well before the end of the barrel.

If you were to set fuel at the end of the "barrel", there wouldn't be enough air pressure to move it, or one could even demonstrate with paper there is no air current at the end of the barrel. Then you can demonstrate to the head referee that there is no air flowing outside of your robot, so G28 would not apply.
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