Bloody hell - just how cool is this?
"Peter Diamandis, the man behind the $10m X-Prize for suborbital space travel, has brought forward his new initiative: the Rocket Racing League. The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a "3D trackway" just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the ground. The first "X-Racers" will be built for the series, but it is hoped new teams will soon enter with novel designs. Events will be staged across the US, culminating in a final in New Mexico.
I get a kick out of reading articles like this. We may not have invented anything really new in the last 50 years but the technology we have NOW is being pushed. Oh, so pushed. If I had any sort of technical know-how I'd beg-borrow-steal to gather enough money to participate. But as seeing I'm a technoidiot, I'll just live vicariously.
Good enough, actually :)
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