26th ANNUAL YUBA COLLEGE MOUSETRAP RACES
4/27/2005
Roster of Entries with Results and Reports
|
Vehicle Name |
Predicted Max Flight, Feet |
Special Notes |
Engineering Team Click for link to report |
Actual Distance, feet |
|
Falling With Style |
20 |
4-foot wingspan; multi-mouse radial engine. "crowd-dazzling" |
Cliff Rockenstein and Mark Shinn |
Movement |
|
The Beast by High Powered Industries |
6 |
4 wheel drive. Compact design |
Mel Ayala and Harpreet Dhanda |
3.5 |
|
The Wright Wing Flyer |
10 |
270 degree mousetrap rotation; dihedral wings |
Billy Fritz |
3.5 |
|
Mighty Mouse |
15 |
12 cylinder (trap) engine; turbofan; 6-foot wing |
Mike Luis |
Moved off end of runway 0.0 |
|
GRO-2005 |
8 |
4 parallel traps; double wings |
Jose Guerrero |
1.0 |
|
Concourse Infinity |
732 cm (about 24 feet) |
Multi-planar powerplant; frictionless tail dragger. |
Matt Ames |
0.5 |
|
Kamakazi |
9 |
Foam/balsa composite |
Ernesto Velazquez |
0.5 |
|
El Dolor de Cabeza |
5 |
Jose Hernandez, Adal Villalobos and Raymundo Diaz |
1.0 |
|
|
The Stork |
10 |
Custom engineered transmission |
Tiffany Bean and Jeremiah Bean |
0.5 |
|
Plan B |
Negative distance |
Rule-bending, loophole monger |
Sean Korhummel |
Off side; negative 3.0 |
|
Gold Rush |
4 |
No propeller; no wheels! |
Justin Scroggins |
Off side; also moved forward |
|
Victor-Y |
To be determined... |
2 props powered by one mousetrap |
Abraham Vang |
0.5 |
|
The Green Menace |
"a few feet" |
Computer designed airfoil; in-wingä propulsion; balsa props |
Martin Wissink |
0.5 |
|
Wood Bird |
3 |
3-stage gearing of propeller |
Ramjun Boontep and Ian O'Brien |
0.5 |
|
P4M ("pray for me") |
3.5 |
Humongous propeller |
Brian Abe |
0.5 |
|
Power Forward |
3 |
Balsa wings...lots of 5-minute epoxy |
Gurpreet Kahlon |
1.8 |