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Re: Optimizing Air Cannon Range

I have found in my vast experience and long history of projectile launchers. the more kenetic energy you can put into a mass before it leaves your grip the faster and further it will go. i have completely given up on Compressed air and almost only use CO2. its cheap, available anywhere with paintball. and as long as there is Liquid CO2 present in the tank the gas maintains a pressure around 1100 PSI. the more pressure you have the smaller you can make your device and the more energy you can put into your projectile's mass. i have stop referring to my CO2 potato launchers as launchers and rather as potato sniper rifles. the vegetables come out of the barrel so quickly that at a range of about 30 feet potato's atomize upon impact of a hard surface. If you relay want to throw a t-shirt up into a crowd with compressed air alone you are going to need allot and I mean allot of it! and a very long barrel to transfer that energy to a shirt. if you want a device you can hold in your hand and shoot out into a crowd an long distances of 150 feet and beyond you simply need more pressure. But please be carefull and remember how Maude Flanders Died.