Talk:Hail cannon

Operating principles

The long nozzle is designed to expand the high pressure gas in the combustion chamber down to atmospheric pressure and emerge first in the form of a thin blast shock wave followed by a slower moving, but massive vortex ring of spinning propellant gasses that expands in diameter with flight time. The spinning gas in the vortex ring is the whistling sound heard as it flies away from the gun. If a battery of these guns were positioned around a farm and rapid fire actually succeeded in disrupting hail, then the turbulence of the vortex rings moving through the atmosphere should be examined as the reason since other investigators discount shock waves. To see and hear a blast shock and a vortex in flight go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbAQcxmXeIk Luceyg (talk) 04:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Possibly copyright infringement?

It appears that most of the text from this article is taken directly from the following URL which predates the creation of this article: http://www.hailcannon.com/how.html

This would indicate either copyright infringement or that the original creator of this article is also the author of http://www.hailcannon.com/how.html but either way the situation should be clarified. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.167.126.220 (talk) 08:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC).

The article was pretty much created July 5, 2006. On July 20 I added some text about the viability of hail cannons that I think I can vouch for -- I linked my sources in as an external link ([1]). The edits since then have been largely administrivia. I can't speak for the initial blocks of text. --Mdwyer 20:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

The first version of the website appears to have been created on July 6th, 2006 (one day after the creation of this article): http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hailcannon.com/how.html However, the archive.org date is when their spider first crawled and archived the page, not the first day that the article was published. Therefore, I would presume that the website predates this article. It appears that Dr. Blofeld copied the text verbatim without citation. I will leave a message on Dr. Blofeld's talk page to request his attention on the matter. FerrousCathode (talk) 15:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

May have been a vio actually. I started it as a newbie on here and saw the request and started it. I don't recall but I know in the first week or two on wikipedia I wasn't really aware of our copyright entitlements and I created a few vios. Perhaps reword the article and restart it. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:45, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Reference

A user added this to the bottom of the page. Can someone find this article and integrate it properly? --Mdwyer 20:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Please read PEPRO company's experience conducted by GIEFA (France) by Dr.P.Admirat since 1973. There are very negative experiences with this type of "antihail" systems. WHO does not evaluate this type of system by its no hail effects.

Straw Man

Ive tried a hail cannon, I fired supersonic rifle rounds through a traffic cone. Try it. A hail cannon is extremely effective, at directing shock waves.

Straw man says hail cannon is not effective.

Shoot the strawman, please? Or light him on fire....

References

Note: similarity to church steeple?

? It seems to me that placing a bell underneath the wide end of an inverted 'hail cannon' would cause upward sound waves to be directed back into the bellfry. It seems that would enhance the bells functionality, by reducing the sound lost in the sky. That makes as much sense, or more, than other explainations ive heard for the purpose of a steeple. ? Fencelizard (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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