Physics - The Trebuchet .

10th November - Night Approx. 2100 hours.
Seth, Pete and I went for some dinner together.
During dinner Seth was explaining about his Physics Project that was due on the 12th of November. So he kinda asked me and Pete to help him. So we accepted.
After dinner, (actually i can't really remember what exactly happened) we went home.
Got changed, and then Seth called up to ask me whether i want to join Pete and him go "Wood Hunting" for the parts for his project.

11th November - Morning Approx. 0000 hours.
Seth, Pete and I went down by the street i lived in looking for pieces of wood needed for the project. (Based on a picture of the trebuchet we are supposed to be making)
After we found and took what we needed, we headed back to my place which is very nearby.
Pete took the pieces of wood and started drawing lines on it, the places where we needed to saw.
About 0130 hours, i was too tired to continue so i left Pete and Seth to continue doing what they did at my place till my brother went to bed. Later they told me that they continued doing what they needed to do till about 0600 hours.

11th November - Afternoon Approx. 1230 hours.
Pete called up when i was in church. Told him i'll call him back when i'm done with church things.
Then at about 1530 hours i called them up, they said they were going to get some tools for the job. So i waited. 1630hours they called up and asked whether they were allowed to come to my place to continue with the job. I agreed. :)
Approx 1800 hours they arrived at my place. And we continued.

"Take my picture? Whack you!"

the cross like thing is the middle of the trebuchet. the rectangular, the base.

Fitting?

11th November - Night Approx. 2030 hours.
We went for dinner at our second home "Tanjung" which is across the street from my place.
We met a few friends there and after eating we went straight back home. (about 2130 hours)
Continued making it. And FINALLY COMPLETED at about 2330 hours.

Top Diagonal View

Side View

Side View - With Counter Weight

11th November - Night till Morning of 12th November (Due date)
Approx. 2330 hours - 0100 hours.

TEST
First Attempt - Failure - Scooped
Second Attempt - Failure - Scooped again
Third Attempt - Failure - Changed scoop, flew the wrong way.
Forth Attempt - Failure - Flew the wrong way again.
Fifth Attempt - Failure - Adjusted nail, flew 1m
Sixth Attempt - SUCCESS - I made a scoop XD
(all the attempts after the 6th was a SUCCESS)

So that was it.

Seth sent it for testing in college.

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Flew 6.4m.

GREAT SUCCESS!! (within 2 days)