The Spitfire Aces ride again
Posted By : Jason Chinn, 17-May-2005, 07:20pm
Or one of those air cannons and a hopper,
like a scaled up paintball gun? Show us the plans then Binman
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The Spitfire Aces ride again
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 17-May-2005, 09:26pm
would if i could get piccies up here
basically wot we got is a 2litre six (NiG, that is why john can't use a 2litre in the silverback because we have purloined it for a tomato liquidiser) with a home made, centre feed radial compressor fixed to the flywheel
all mounted in a camping trailer with an indusrial sized feed hopper
th erules stae that only whole tomatos emerging from the machine will count, but we reckon the rate of fire will be so high the judges aren't going to be able to tell which toms were busted as they left the machine and which ones busted when they hit the target
estimating a rate of fire approching 1000 toms per minute ie run the engine at about 1400rpm and miss afew
bloody mary anyone with this alchohol lace dpetrol we appear to get these days?
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The Spitfire Aces ride again
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 18-May-2005, 08:25am
New product... !
Binmans best tomatoe puree.... soon to be stocked at Tesco's... cheap!
One free tube with every 30 litres of 99Ron Fuel!!-
The Spitfire Aces ride again
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 24-May-2005, 09:10pm
Thank you NiG for you cheering words of comfort.
The Spitfire Aces are in need of one other wing man to help feed "Bloody Mary" with tomatoes at the Cheltenham fesitval of science on sunday 12 june
NiG, might you be prepared to come and try some tomato puree with your trumpet chums???
jonathan-
The Spitfire Aces ride again
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 25-May-2005, 12:29pm
Sorry Bin,
I hope to be hurtling around snetterton like a lunatic on that day..... oh boy, oh boy, oh boy....-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham sun 12 june
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 26-May-2005, 06:51pm
Dear All,
Jonathan Binnington, John Davies and Vin Poonwassie (aka The Spitfire Aces) have succesfully built a GT6 engined tomato throwing device for use in the Scrapheap Challenge Tomato Wars at the Cheltenham Festival of Science, Montpellier Gardens Cheltenham on sunday 12th June.
We are allowed to display on Bloody Mary, our machine, TSSC stickers to declare our club allegiances.
The TV production comany have issued an invitation for anyone interested in the goings-on to come and spectate on the 12th, are there Local Groups who may wish to attend?
A short report of our experiences will also be prepared for The Courier if desired
Jonathan Binnington.-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham sun 12 june
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 26-May-2005, 08:15pm
I think the courier article is a must y'know.... we do wanna hear all about it!-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham Correction SAT 11 june
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 27-May-2005, 07:08am
Date
As stated above the Scrapheap Road Show will take place on Montpellier Gardens in Cheltenham on Saturday June 11th 2005. All teams should assume that they will need to leave the whole day free (although those teams that are eliminated in the early rounds will be free from mid-afternoon)
yus I got the date wrong
ITS SATURDAY
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The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham Correction SAT 11 june
Posted By : Clive Speaks, 28-May-2005, 09:19am
Jonathan, the Wyedean Area might well have some support for you. Can't guarentee any cheerleaders though, I think the hairy legs would give the game away! Any more details on times etc?-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham Correction SAT 11 june
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 28-May-2005, 10:54am
from the morning say 9am ish on the saturday the elimination heats will take place, around 19 teams will take to the range in round one.
19 teams will be whittled down to 8
then there will be two foursomes, still throwing tomatos.
the winners of each foursome will then go head to head to come up with an "all-comers" winner
the "all-comers" winner will then go up against a team of Scrapheap All Stars to give an overall winner
I expect the event will take all day but those teams eliminated early on will be making an early journey home
so start 9 am, round one finished by late morning, foursomes finished by mid afternoon, head-to head finished by 3-4pm, final by say 5pm
j
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The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham SAT 11 june
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 04-Jun-2005, 09:15am
We have some further information for anyone thinking of popping down, it is being held in at Montpelier Gardens near the center of Cheltenham Sat 11th June ( a weeks time). The Spitfire Aces (all members of the TSSC) have built a machine to compete againt 20 other teams in a knockout competition. With out allegiance to Triumps, we have built a machine with a roaring 6 cylinder 2 litre Triumph engine to hurl tomatoes at a target from 15 meters to 50 meters!
The day will be good for the petrol head and tinkerer alike as the other teams will have made machines from all sorts including compressed air, other engines, rubber bands, heavy weights etc.
The actual Cheltenham science festival will be a couple of roads down with lots of free events for people to take part in, with children in mind.
We expect it to an 'it's a knockout' sort of day with the Spitfire Aces a strong favorite to uphopld the pride of Triumphs to win!
below is an extract from our agenda....
Competition Rules
Round 1 will consist of all teams having 2 minutes to hit a 3 - 4ft target as many times as they can.
Round 2 will see the top eight teams from Round 1 split into two heats of four. Each team must try and score as many points as they can by hitting zones on a 3-4 ft target. The winners of each heat will progress to Round 3.
Round 3 will see the two heat winners compete against each other to burst 3 paper bursts as quickly as possible. The winner will then face off against the Scrapheap Challenge All Stars.
Expected kick-off after 10am.-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars, Montpellier Gdns Cheltenham SAT 11 june
Posted By : Michael Davis, 10-Jun-2005, 10:37pm
Just wanted to say good luck to the aces. I'll be at Snetterton so won't be attending the "demonstration" in person.-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 12-Jun-2005, 07:33pm
We came, we saw, we puree'd.
The competition was fierce, we went through scrutineering when we arrived, the Scrap Heap Challenge (SHC) engineers were impressed, especially with our report of a throughput of 1 tomato per second, that over two minutes would be faster than any of the other machines they had there.
We we're on the list to compete last as we we're expected to use a LOT of tomatoes. We sneerede at the other competitors as they fired a max of 1 tomatoe every 2 seconds to 15 tomatoes in two minutes, with a couple of failures on the start line. It came to our go, we needed a mere 15 to get through to the next round - foregone conclusion of course.
We fired up the six cylinder tomato chucking machine we lovingly built out of scrap. Tomatoes went in, tomatoes came out at the predicted rate - if not faster! Unfortunately they came out as salad, we did emit the most tomatoes in the competition but only 7 hit the target - so we didn't get farther than the first round, but didn't come last either! We had a good 'entertainment value' and we won't be forgotten in a hurry.
The whole day was very good as it was a the whole SHC special programme recorded in one day - It's due to be shown as a special SHC programme after the well known SHC series this autumn, expect it on telly December....
watch this space!-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Jason Chinn, 12-Jun-2005, 08:23pm
Well done Bin, let's see a picture of this monster then!-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 12-Jun-2005, 10:33pm
with an invite for Stafford the Team will put a demonstration on...
J-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Clive Speaks, 13-Jun-2005, 09:10am
Great to watch and tasty as well! I think that the quiet thin man at the back of your team deserves a special mention. Anyway good fun and we certainly appreciated your efforts. Did the road race team fella ever find the top of his finger?-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 13-Jun-2005, 06:01pm
yes, we have had a email message from the production company, It was found in a tea time sandwich of one of the old ladies in the old folks home at the other end of the park.
before any of the care staff could do anything about it the old lady in question had sucked the meat off the fingernail and declared it the best meat sandwich she had had for many a long year, pity about the shell...
J
ps are we invited to demonstrate at Stafford yet?-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 17-Jun-2005, 08:32am
With Stafford not too far away, I'm thinking that I want to enter my spitgt6 into the modified section, but are we allowed to enter two?. John, Bin I think if we bling it out a bit we could have a serious contender for the modified section with the Tomato Chucker (aka Bloody Mary) - the GT6 engined Tomato throwing machine as our modified gt6? - as the engine is welded to a trailer we could register the trailer, mot it, tax it (exempt of course) - or have it attached to a spitfire via the tow bar and call that our mod? Whadya think?
ps "ps are we invited to demonstrate at Stafford yet?"-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 17-Jun-2005, 09:20am
Ooo yes... you've got to demonstrate 'bloody mary' at the international... anyone know where we can get an MGB to use as the target?-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Chris Mills, 21-Jun-2005, 06:51pm
Stafford a must
I've been away for a couple of weeks, so just catching up on the MB
Can one of the " Bloody Mary " team contact me and we'll sort the details
Cheers
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The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - scores on the board
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 21-Jun-2005, 07:32pm
Chris, I have sent a message to your hotmail addr
jonath-
fao Chris mills: The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars your email addr doesn't work
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 21-Jun-2005, 09:36pm
Chris, myself, Vinny and John are planning to come to Stafford, with our cars and blitz the modified section of the polishing competion
we also thought we would enter Bloody Mary as a modified GT6 (er, all that is left is the engine, but we worked outwards from there...)
any chance of blagging three passes as it takes three able bodied men in their primes to work the contrap er monster?
thought we would put a demonstration on on the saturday and the sunday, don't expect Battle of Jutland artillery barrage, we squash more than we shoot, but it's a hoot when each whole one comes out...
Jonathan, 4 and on b1/2 of the Spitfire Aces-
fao Chris mills: The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars your email addr doesn't work
Posted By : Chris Mills, 22-Jun-2005, 07:27am
Hi Jonathan
Give me a call one evening this week, details as in the Courier
Cheers
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The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - Bloody Mary will be demonstrated at Stafford
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 24-Jun-2005, 12:46pm
Confirmation has been recieved that the Triumph Engined Tomato Throwing machine which competed in the Scrap Heap Challenge Tomato Wars event ( to be televised in December), manned by The Spitfire Aces, three petrol heads members of the TSSC WILL be at Stafford to demonstrate the awsome power of the six cylinder GT6 machine (aka Bloody Mary) ......be afraid.......-
The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - Good or What !!!
Posted By : Chris Mills, 14-Jul-2005, 05:18pm
If any one has some pic's
I'd be interested please
Cheers
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The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - Good or What !!!
Posted By : Michael Charlton, 14-Jul-2005, 06:25pm
Fire!
Incoming to Briscoe Kid!
Theres ya go
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The Spitfire Aces Tomato Wars - Good or What !!!
Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 14-Jul-2005, 07:18pm
madness, utter madness...
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