Pinewood Derby

We raced our cars at the Pinewood Derby this morning and took the coveted Non-first or second place positions, which means that we are done for the day and do not need to come back later to race in the finals.

One car in GP's den lost its axle on the first run. We found a stock non-polished replacement for it, and the car won every heat by at least a full car length. So much for spending an hour polishing axles...

Pinewood Derby Construction

This year for the pinewood derby, we decided to abandon the whole "car" concept and went for a more WW-2 look. GP demanded a Curtis P-40 Warhawk with blue camoflage.

CP chose a battleship, shown here with the USS Arizona.

Both boys helped out a lot with their vehicles. CP ran the scroll saw and both of them used the hand sander with 36-grit paper to shape their models.

V-17

GP & I built the V-17, a massive paper rocket. If the V-2 was good, a V-17 should be about eight and a half times better, right?