I was recently reminded of a record when watching Mark Rober’s Largest T-Shirt Cannon world record. It was for the fastest time to put on 5 t-shirts shot from a t-shirt cannon.
I had this application in my backlog for several years but never found the right equipment or occasion to break it. I made one attempt in LA when filming for a Japanese reality TV show but the cannon didn’t shoot consistently enough and we ran into production time constraints so scrapped the attempt. I was also invited on James Cordon shortly before it went off the air and I thought this would be a great one to do on the show since all he’d have to do was load and shoot the cannon. We ran into scheduling constraints between the show and Guinness and it ever happened. I’m glad we didn’t attempt the record because it would have been a disaster. It took weeks to prepare all the equipment and then hours to actually get all the equipment dialed in to break the record. In the end, Jake (who previously held the record with me for the furthest distance to throw and catch a hotdog in 2019) shot 5 t-shirts over 100 feet that I put on in 46.09 seconds crushing the Guinness minimum of 1 minute. I made several good catches along the way and Jake got the pressure and launch angle dialed in to finally break the record (though he had to nearly double the recommended pressure to get the shirts to consistently fly far enough).