TheRocket Racing League is pushing the throttle forward in the development of anew sport--a NASCAR-style racing league utilizing rocket-powered aircraft flownby pilots through a "three-dimensional track" that's plainly sky-high.
Forthe motorsport-challenged among you, NASCAR stands for the National Associationfor Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the largest sanctioned venue of its type inthe United States. While NASCAR takes it to the roadway, the Rocket RacingLeague takes it to the air. The League is power-charged to acceleratetechnology in the areas of airframe, propulsion and spacecraft design--and haveflat out fun at the same time.
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Inthe early years of this new sport, each rocket-powered X-Racer will be based onan existing airframe, but modified to carry a 1,500 pound thrust rocket engineburning liquid oxygen and kerosene. The single-pilot, first generation Mark-1X-Racer is expected to reach maximum speeds of more than 320 miles per hour.
X-Racersare designed to be rapidly refueled, a pit stop that would be on the order offive to ten minutes. Even faster refueling techniques are expected to bemastered as the Rocket Racing League develops over time.
Thevirtual airspace that X-Racers will speed through is some 10,000 feet long,3,000 feet wide and 5,000 feet high. Pilots will navigate the course throughuse of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology and a heads-updisplay within the cockpit. This virtual course may be supplemented with realobstacles such as inflatable pylons and balloons, as well as spotlights andlasers during nighttime races.
JeffGreason, President of XCOR Aerospace, has noted that progress is being made onthe rocket racer motor--including static test firings to 100 percent thrust onthe engine. "We are proceeding with power plant development leading to safe,successful flight," Greason said in a recent XCOR press statement.
"Wehave fired the rocket motor for the racer repeatedly...and it's running withinour time schedule," said James Busby of XCOR's media relations. The officialdesignation of the liquid oxygen/kerosene powered engine is the XR4K14, headvised SPACE.com.
Whileprogress is in the wind, the Rocket Racing League has raised a yellow flag onflying the Mark-1 X-Racer during the X Prize Cup festivities October 20-21 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The League had hoped to accelerate the development schedule aheadof the vendor's commitment, but that has not been possible.
"We'reholding off on flying until we're prepared from a business standpoint...it hasnothing to do with the technology," said Granger Whitelaw, Chief ExecutiveOfficer for the Rocket Racing League. "The technology is 100 percent there. Thevehicle and the engine are on track as far as that goes," he told SPACE.com.
TheRocket Racing League has already taken delivery of its company-owned Mark-1X-Racer trainer, crafted by Velocity, Inc. of Sebastian, Florida. This plane--poweredby piston engine--eventually to be replaced by rocket engine--will serve as atraining vehicle for rocket racing pilots. A second Velocity, already owned bythe League, is currently undergoing modifications, including the installationof a rocket engine, by XCOR Aerospace.
Creatinga brand-new 21st century sport like rocket racing is not without itschallenges, Whitelaw explained. He's no stranger to blending business with high-speedhardware as a two-time Indianapolis 500 champion team partner.
"Justpulling everything together at the same time...it's all about execution for us,"Whitelaw said. "There are so many different pieces that we're doing to bringout a major brand...a major sport in the aerospace/aeronautics world."
Whitelawhighlighted the League's push in technology innovation. The competitiveenvironment, the high-heat from racing conditions, and the professionalfeedback from the pilots - all this and other aspects allows the Rocket RacingLeague to serve as a test bed for research and development.
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Last month, Madison, Alabama's impending Minor League Baseball team announced that they would be known as the Rocket City Trash Pandas. On Saturday, logos were unveiled to go along with this memorable moniker.
Last month, Madison, Alabama's impending Minor League Baseball team announced that they would be known as the Rocket City Trash Pandas. On Saturday, logos were unveiled to go along with this memorable moniker.
The Trash Pandas won't make their onfield debut until 2020, following the Mobile BayBears' relocation to a 7,500-capacity ballpark that is currently under construction. The team, playing in the Southern League, will serve as the Double-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels.
A Trash Panda is a slang term for a raccoon, recently popularized in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. In that film, a raccoon character named Rocket is referred to as a "Trash Panda." The team's "Rocket City" moniker references the longstanding nickname for Huntsville, Alabama, which is located just to the northeast of Madison. Huntsville, home of NASA's George C. Marshall Flight Center as well as Cummings Research Park, is a hub of aerospace and defense industry research and development. The city last fielded a team in the form of the Southern League's Stars, who played out of now-dormant Joe Davis Stadium before relocating to Biloxi, Mississippi following the 2014 campaign.
The sale of the Mobile BayBears to the BallCorps LLC ownership group, approved in November of 2017, was followed seven months later by official approval of the team's relocation to Madison. "Trash Pandas" was among the finalists in a subsequent three-phase "Name the Team" contest, trouncing the competition every step of the way.
"I just heard the word 'trash.' I hadn't seen the movies. I didn't know the phrase," he said. "We put it in the list of 10 [Name the Team finalists], but I still thought, 'We're in the Bible Belt, people won't react to it well.' ... But looking at the stats, any way you slice it -- ZIP code, age group, any demographic you could find -- in every case, Trash Pandas dominated."
Saturday's logo unveiling took place as part of a public celebration at Madison's Dublin Park, featuring live music, fireworks and plenty of new merchandise. The logos were created by Casey White and Jason Klein of Brandiose, who worked with the team during every step of the identity development process. Brandiose has helped create many of the Minor Leagues most popular -- and sometimes polarizing -- identities, such as the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, El Paso Chihuahuas and Akron RubberDucks.
The Trash Pandas' color scheme is described by the team as "Space Black, Rocket Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray." According to Klein, the primary logo tells "the story of a raccon with ingenuity cobbling together all the elements he needs to launch a trash can into outer space."
"The community has got an incredible amount of engineers, and it's also a hub of rocket scientists. Literally, rocket science," he continued. "So we brought it all together. A trash panda in Rocket City is going to figure out how to get a trash can launched into outer space. And when he gets there, he plants his flag on a planet. That's pretty much the narrative."
Indeed, an alternate logo -- as well as a uniform patch -- portrays a triumphant Trash Panda in space, carrying the American flag. Somehow, using a calculator as a control panel and a trash can lid for a helmet, he was able to complete his mission.
For the Trash Pandas on the ground, their goal is sustain momentum all the way until the team's April 2020 onfield debut. Upcoming events include a Spring fashion show, during which the team uniforms will be unveiled.
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