Tue, Jul 29, 2008
Advanced Technologies Allow For A Safer "Aero-Future"
Founded in 2005 by two-time Indianapolis 500 champion team owner
Granger Whitelaw and aerospace pioneer and X PRIZE Foundation
founder Dr. Peter Diamandis, the Rocket Racing League (www.rocketracingleague.com)
is the only entertainment sports league that combines the
exhilaration of racing with the power of rocket engines, fully
satisfying our universal love for power and flight through the
thrill of Rocket Racers.
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.
The Rocket Racer pilots see the "raceway in the sky" via
in-panel and 3D helmet displays. For the hundreds of thousands of
fans in attendance, they will witness the racing action live and in
real-time display on multiple large projection screens. For the
millions of fans watching on televisions and PCs at home, they will
experience the thrill of the Rocket Racing League via unique remote
and rocket-mounted cameras that give at-home fans the sensation of
riding right alongside famed League pilots.
But... the technologies in play for both the Rocket Racing
League and their recently acquired company, Velocity Aircraft,
promise MORE than thrills and excitement... but the potential of
safer and more versatile flights for us all.
ANN's Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, checked in with Granger
Whitelaw to look at the future technologies involved in the
formulation of the Rocket Racing League and the payoffs such
efforts might have for us all.
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