OC: ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, a stunt-lover from Los Angeles, is planning to attempt the longest and possibly the most dangerous rocket jump in history. He’s going to launch himself in a rocket across the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, hopefully breaking his own previous record of jumping 1,374 feet.
Hughes, who calls himself the ‘Current King of the Daredevils’, will perform the stunt on April 2 at The Palo Duro Zipline Adventure Park, located 25 miles from Amarillo. He’ll be using the steam-powered X-2 Steam Rocket, powered by pressure rather than rocket fuel. The tank is expected to build up sufficient pressure to launch him off a steel ramp and set him sailing across the Park area and over the ‘Grand Canyon’ of Texas
I hope that he didn’t buy that rocket from any company named Acme or Ajax.
You can buy the rocket post-launch in “as-is condition.”
http://www.madmikehughes.com/news4.html
And instead of a God is my copilot pilot bumper sticker on his car he has a Wile E. Coyote is my copilot sticker.
4000 pounds of thrust will take the rocket to 3500 feet altitude in 4 seconds. Hughes’s team expects the parachute-assisted descent to take 21 seconds… IF he clears the canyon!
Great if that works he can mass produce and we can send illegal back to Mexico over the wall they’re going to build.
3500 feet in 4 seconds!
Geez… Dat’s a lotta Gs!
He is the Steampunk…
Well hell, I’m just down the road from Amarillo-I might just mosey on up and catch this stunt.
He will probably clear the canyon, we’re just not sure if it will be in a controlled or uncontrolled manner…
Hope he did the math right. Would hate to see him land in a tree in Seattle.
His nickname says it all.
😉
“Hold my beer!”
“hey. watch this”
hope he didn’t use Evil Knievel’s engineer – he’d have to watch out for his chute’s premature ejectulation
Do it Mad Mike! Even if you don’t live through it, it’s better than living in L.A.
Good for him!
Follow your dreams – do the impossible, the impracticable, the improbable, the unexpected!
Be a Trump!
izlamo delenda est …
Hope he don’t land on a horny toad.
Snake River…Part Deux
As a Texan, I kinda feel an obligation to go there and hold his beer while I watch him do this.