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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-09 Cached

Tom Stanton built a gravity-powered trebuchet that launched a projectile at 776 mph, breaking the sound barrier for the first time with a purely mechanical design.

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