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X-Racer test flight video

11.02.07

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.

Categories: Rocket Racing League

posted by Jeff Foust on 11.02.07 @ 7:11 am

4 comments so far

Hey, glad you ran with it. I wish I’d caught the high flying flight test that apparently happened this week.

By Ben Brockert on 11.02.07 4:04 pm

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.

By Ferris Valyn on 11.03.07 1:03 pm

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

By Roro on 11.03.07 2:31 pm

I’m proud that my younger, taller, smarter rocket-scientist brother Doug is part of this amazing Xcor team endeavor!

By connie on 11.07.07 5:16 pm
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