The teams only get 10 hours so everyone must keep that in mind, & I highly doubt that the time limit will be extended. How about a free fall, the teams build a device that protects an object (electronic measuring device) from a drom of 1000+ ft. The device should slow the decent in the least amount of time at the last possible moment, no chutes allowed. What about a gyro-copter? That is pretty straight forward! hope they have insurance! Robert return!

-- Scott Hickey (Knuckenfutts@yahoo.com), January 06, 2001

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magneticly charge the device and spin it fast then drop it twards the ground where it is funneled twards the junkyard magnet (turned on)

-- ronald s. keefer (ronk237@earthlink.net), January 11, 2001.