just out of curiosity, I wonder how fast a pumpkin can travel before disintegrating due to wind resistance
The skin on a pumpkin is like shoe leather. You could also coat it with a methacrylate or urethane. I would think the unbalanced movement or tumbling would cause the most drag. The progressive acceleration of Bull's gun was what made the idea attractive to launching satellites and electronics into space, as that was Bull's original intent. Nobody would back him until Iraq approached him by asking him if they could hit Israel with it. So instead of pointing it up at a vertical, they used a mountain ridge to point it toward Israel. Almost got the darn thing finished too.
What is the wind resistance to a pumpkin laden European Swallow?