Roger Ramjet Rocket Races

mikea

mikea

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The man behind the $10 million X Prize for private spaceflight is joining forces with a venture capitalist who's also an Indy car backer to establish a NASCAR-like racing league for rocket-powered aircraft.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9572408/
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See the picture in the article.

They're talking about the XCOR engine that Dick Rutan tested on the rocket powered Long-EZ.
 
Why don't they just cut to the chase? People killing themselves on the big screen. Make it a series, give them weapons to do the deed, build this big round thing around them, call it a Coliseum.
 
This is amazing to me,
Do you guys think something like this will actually happened?
You would need a lot of people to fork over a lot of money in order for there to be an entire racing league.
Pretty neat stuff though.
 
mikea said:
See the picture in the article.

They're talking about the XCOR engine that Dick Rutan tested on the rocket powered Long-EZ.
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Judging from last week's voluminous pileups at Taladega, they better learn how to handle the piston powereds a whole lot better first, and then go check those tars again.
 
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To Rich For my Blood, i couldn't even afford to start one of those planes
Dave
 
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