Waldo Stakes
Waldo Stakes
Born (1955-11-23) 23 November 1955
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

  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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