They’re discouraging fans - safety issues - but it will be televised on his YouTube channel. He plans to go about a mile - reaching an altitude of about 1,800 feet - before pulling two parachutes. On the morning of the launch, Hughes will heat about 70 gallons of water in a stainless steel tank and then blast off between 2 p.m. I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket. “It’s scary as hell, but none of us are getting out of this world alive. “If you’re not scared to death, you’re an idiot,” Hughes said. trying to raise funds to prove the Earth is flat He will travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 800 km/h. His first test of the rocket will also be the launch date - Saturday, when he straps into his homemade contraption and attempts to hurtle over the ghost town of Amboy, California.
His project has cost him $20,000, which includes Rust-Oleum paint to fancy it up and a motor home he bought on Craigslist that he converted into a ramp. Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent the last few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his garage. Leave enough food for his four cats - just in case anything happens. The silver-haired daredevil later took to trying to prove that the earth was flat and building rockets in a quest to launch himself past the Karman line, the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.The countdown to launch creeps closer and there’s still plenty for self-taught rocket scientist “Mad” Mike Hughes to do: Last-second modifications to his vessel. Hughes gained fame in 2002 when he jumped a Lincoln Town Car stretch limousine 103 feet at a speedway in Perris, California, a stunt certified by Guinness World Records as “longest limousine ramp jump.” The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office told the Times that it would conduct an investigation into the incident. The video appears to show the launcher attached to the back of a truck.
“So the rocket went straight up in an arc and came straight down.” “The parachute ripped off at launch,” Chapman told the paper. #MadMike #MadMikeHughes /svtviTEi8f- Justin Chapman February 22, 2020Ĭhapman told the Los Angeles Times in an interview that Hughes, 64, might have been knocked unconscious during take-off.
Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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