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Rocket Racing League Flights With Armadillo Engine

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-with-more-cowbell dept.

Toren Altair mentions that the Rocket Racing League has video and pictures available from their recent flight tests of new Armadillo Aerospace liquid oxygen-alcohol engines. "Founded in 2005 by two-time Indianapolis 500 winning team partner Granger Whitelaw and X PRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter H. Diamandis, MD, the Rocket Racing League (RRL) is a new entertainment sports league that combines the exhilaration of racing with the power of rocket engines. To be held at venues across the country, the Rocket Racing League will feature multiple races pitting up to 10 Rocket Racers going head to head in a 4-lap, multiple elimination heat format on a 5-mile 'Formula One'-like closed circuit raceway in the sky."

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  1. What is wrong with Forumla One? by Anachragnome · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Already cars are at the outer most limits of traction and control.

    Is this simply a bid for more spectacularly "entertaining" wrecks?

    Air races do not seem to be subject to the same rate of catastrophic wrecks as Formula One racing (or NASCAR for that matter), but ROCKETS? It seems to me that the margin of error is lowly being minimized to the points that wrecks are almost a certainty.

    But, then again, who would go watch NASCAR if there wasn't wrecks? Even as a race fan, I find NASCAR as interesting as the commercials shown while watching it.

  2. Re:from Doom to Rockets... by MeepMeep · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Interesting trivia for the /. crowd: Armadillo Aerospace was founded by John Carmack, id Software programmer.

    This is Slashdot...anyone in this 'crowd' who didn't know that Armadillo Aerospace was founded by JC (peace be upon him) needs to turn in their geek cred card for incineration.