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Waldo Stakes

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Waldo Stakes
Waldo Stakes
Born (1955-11-23) 23 November 1955 (age 68)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation(s)General contractor, builder of rocket vehicles

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]

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

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  1. ^ Lerner, Preston (December 18, 2012). "Waldo Stakes: A Rocket Man Chases The Land Speed Record". Automobile.
  2. ^ Huffman, John Pearley (2011-12-26). "Is a 2000 Mph Car Actually Possible?". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  3. ^ Lerner, Preston. "Where the Wild West Meets the Cosmos". Air & Space Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  4. ^ Silverman, Hollie. "Daredevil 'Mad Mike' Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket". CNN. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  5. ^ 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.
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