Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Rocket Racers from Rocket Racing League, XCOR, Armadillo Aerospace
The Rocket Racing League says its rocket-powered race planes will take off for their first public exhibition races on Aug. 1 and 2 at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wis. But that's just the start. The league's founders have also acquired an airframe-manufacturing company, taken on a new partner to build rocket engines and set up a string of subsidiaries.
Whitelaw and his partners have been working to create a "NASCAR in the sky" - a series of aerial fly-offs that would draw in spectators and viewers the way auto races do today. Now Rocket Racing Inc. is aiming to take that auto-racing parallel several steps further.
The two rocket racers that will fly will be from California-based XCOR Aerospace and Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace respectively.
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The Rocket Racing League, Rocket Racers, rocket-powered race planes, EAA AirVenture air show, XCOR Aerospace, Armadillo Aerospace, Velocity Aircraft
Whitelaw and his partners have been working to create a "NASCAR in the sky" - a series of aerial fly-offs that would draw in spectators and viewers the way auto races do today. Now Rocket Racing Inc. is aiming to take that auto-racing parallel several steps further.
The two rocket racers that will fly will be from California-based XCOR Aerospace and Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace respectively.
More from here
Keywords:
The Rocket Racing League, Rocket Racers, rocket-powered race planes, EAA AirVenture air show, XCOR Aerospace, Armadillo Aerospace, Velocity Aircraft
Labels: Aerospace-Engineering
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