What I mean by High Velocity Mashed Potatoes:
This picture is of a potato impacting a 3/4" piece of plywood at 700 ft per sec. The white stuff is the potato vaporizing on impact. Very little is left after impact. The exposure is 1/2000 of a second using a video camera (lucky shot!).
MPEG of this picture. Impact1.mpg (232k)
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This is another picture of a potato vaporizing:
This impact occurred where the plywood was against the sawhorse. It made a 3/8" indention into the plywood. you can see the streaks of vaporized potato radiating away from the impact site.
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Picture of a 1" hole through an old tailgate at 30'
Will post video of this soon!