US students prevail in rocket-powered egg challenge A group of Alabama students claimed the International Rocketry Challenge crown in Paris last week, pipping their British and French rivals into second and third places, respectively. The seven students from the Russellville City Schools – competing as RCS Engineers – were pitted against the UK's "Team Terminator", from James …
Indeed, met him a few years back and he's still on cracking form.
Alternatively I also give you Scrapheap Challenge in a similar(ish) mad engineering vein.
TGER never did rockets (at least that I can recall), but SC did them in some form or other at least twice - S01E06 and S10E07.
The second one's rocket powered trains, not quite the same but great fun and includes a home-made jet engine. First one's proper rockets though, albeit with snow globes rather than eggs. And had Bowser Munson in it, which is always a bonus.
Oh, and for those who want to waste a bit of time, I give you:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/
Complete with 13 episodes from 1979-1986. Includes the first one (Egg Mobiles), in which the Prof was only a judge, not the presenter (that was Brian "Playschool" Cant, plus Charlotte Allen). Learn something new every day researching el Reg posts...
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