When Rocket Racing League’s Granger Whitelaw announced last Friday that their prototype X-Racer had performed three test flights the day before in Mojave, he declined to show any photos or video of the flights, and provided few technical details about the tests. There’s still no information about the tests on the RRL’s web site, but there is now an independently-produced video available by Ben Brockert. In an email earlier this week Brockert said he filmed the tests standing outside of airport property, “so that I’d be free to share the video on my terms.” That distance means that the video doesn’t show a lot of details, although you can clearly see the X-Racer make a few short hops off the runway.
Hey, glad you ran with it. I wish I’d caught the high flying flight test that apparently happened this week.
Jeff,
Associated with this, I took a picture of it off the Jumbotron, and posted it on my blog – or you can clikc here
Ben, thanks for taking the video.
Alan Radecki put a photo on wikipedia of the flight to altitude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Xcor-rocketracer-N216MR-071029-07cr-7.jpg
I’m proud that my younger, taller, smarter rocket-scientist brother Doug is part of this amazing Xcor team endeavor!