Photo gallery: BYU engineers create Batman-like device for Air Force competition

Published: Friday, April 13 2012 11:12 p.m. MDT

Capstone Batman Gun, March 28, 2012

Jaren Wilkey, BYU

A team of BYU engineering students has created an anchoring device that shoots from a firearm and pulls a person vertically in the air as much as 90 feet, just like Batman is known to do from time to time. The project is part of the annual BYU Engineering Capstone class and will be presented to the Air Force Research Lab in a competition against 17 other universities.

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