Hey Batman, Look How A BYU Student 'Rises' Using Grappling Hook! [VIDEO]
As part of an annual #-Link-Snipped-# competition that required contestants to devise a tool that would securely connect to a vertical surface, like a concrete building, and let a person climb up on a cable in the same way as Batman. Engineering students at the #-Link-Snipped-#(Brigham Young University) have come up with a shooter, that shoots an anchor-like mechanism capable of pulling a person vertically unto 90 feet.
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The project’s Faculty Adviser Greg Bishop stated that The Air Force wanted to scale greater heights, on new surfaces, and in very little time. While doing all these, they'll even be carrying a weapon or a gadget for communication. And that's where this "Batman Hook" or the grappling hook comes into the play. BYU’s device could be employed to climb up walls at rates greater than 30 feet per minute, which the university claim is quicker than military Special Forces' rate. The device comprises a built-in LED light array that secures a UV-cured epoxy to fasten it to a surface, say a cement wall. This epoxy sets in five minutes, unlike the 12 or 24 hours a normal epoxy would consume.
BYU students entered the competition at Wright State University in Ohio April 16 to 20, where the team and other contestants were given 20 minutes to show to the military representatives their devices' operation. In order to win, the device must've pulled 3 people holding 300 pounds each, up a 90 feet vertical incline.
Here's a video showing the team in acton:
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The project’s Faculty Adviser Greg Bishop stated that The Air Force wanted to scale greater heights, on new surfaces, and in very little time. While doing all these, they'll even be carrying a weapon or a gadget for communication. And that's where this "Batman Hook" or the grappling hook comes into the play. BYU’s device could be employed to climb up walls at rates greater than 30 feet per minute, which the university claim is quicker than military Special Forces' rate. The device comprises a built-in LED light array that secures a UV-cured epoxy to fasten it to a surface, say a cement wall. This epoxy sets in five minutes, unlike the 12 or 24 hours a normal epoxy would consume.
BYU students entered the competition at Wright State University in Ohio April 16 to 20, where the team and other contestants were given 20 minutes to show to the military representatives their devices' operation. In order to win, the device must've pulled 3 people holding 300 pounds each, up a 90 feet vertical incline.
Here's a video showing the team in acton:
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