At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight. ![]() ![]() Despite the two parachutes, it was a rough landing. Hughes was dropping too fast, though, and he had to send out a second one. Hughes reached a speed that an assistant, Waldo Stakes, estimated to be around 350 mph before deploying a parachute. The steam-powered rocket streaks upward, then takes around 10 seconds to fall straight back. Much of the reason for the delay has been getting permission to use federal or state areas for the experiment. A video showed the rocket taking off with what appears to be a parachute tearing away during the launch. I manned up and did it.”Īccording to the AP, Hughes converted some scaffolding and a mobile home into a ramp and modified it to launch from a vertical angle so he wouldn’t fall back to the ground on public land. “I’m tired of people saying I chickened out and didn’t build a rocket. “Relieved,” he said after being checked out by paramedics after his steam-powered craft emblazed with the words “FLAT EARTH” returned to the ground. He told the Associated Press that outside of an aching back he’s fine after the launch near Amboy, Calif. “Mad” Mike Hughes, a 61-year-limo driver and self-taught rocket scientist who believes that the Earth is flat, finally blasted himself in the direction of space.Īfter many delays, Hughes propelled himself almost 2,000 feet into the air Saturday before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert about 200 miles east of Los Angeles.
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