Friday afternoon we went to visit Dale at his school. Carsyn has been anxious to race the car she had built this summer. It's a co2 dragster car. She used a computer program to design it. After she finished that she used a scroll saw to cut it out of a block of balsa wood. Then she sanded and painted it and added the wheels. The finished vehicle is really cool! AND, to see it race was even better.
The get it all set up Luke measured out 72ft., they placed the start and finish line, hooked up the "track" (fishing line to keep the car running straight), and added the "soda bulb" (the co2 cartridge).
When Carsyn dropped the trigger a needle punctured a hole in the cartridge. The car raced off. It was so fast that the first 2 times I couldn't catch a photo of it. (It was suppose to go at about 60mph.....)
Everyone was super excited about it!
