Waldo Stakes (born 23 November 1955) is an American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles.[1] Stakes is planning to break the world land speed record using a rocket car powered by a second-hand X-15 rocket engine, which he has named the Sonic Wind Land Speed Research Vehicle.[2]
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 Waldo Stakes | |
| Born | 23 November 1955 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation(s) | General contractor, builder of rocket vehicles |
Stakes was a founder and one-time curator of the Saxon Aerospace Museum in Boron, California.[3]
Stakes was a collaborator with "Mad" Mike Hughes in his attempts to achieve suborbital flight using a steam-driven rocket.[4][5]
References edit
- ^ Lerner, Preston (December 18, 2012). "Waldo Stakes: A Rocket Man Chases The Land Speed Record". Automobile.
- ^ Huffman, John Pearley (2011-12-26). "Is a 2000 Mph Car Actually Possible?". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ Lerner, Preston. "Where the Wild West Meets the Cosmos". Air & Space Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ Silverman, Hollie. "Daredevil 'Mad Mike' Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket". CNN. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ Gohd, Chelsea (21 February 2020). "'Mad Mike' will try to launch his steam rocket again for 'Homemade Astronauts' TV show". Space.com. Retrieved 2020-02-24.