Rocket Racing League Blog

Here’s a short video of the X-Racer prototype plane to be used in the Rocket Racing League events. Can’t wait til they’re racing around the sky.

Here’s a sweet image of a Rocket Racing League Plane, an x-racer. I found the image over at the Rocket Racing League website.

An X-Racer is the codename for the planes that the pilots of the Rocket Racing League (RRL) will be flying. They are currently in the prototype testing phase before the RRL gets underway.

The X-Racers are single-pilot planes that will carry a 1,500 pound thrust rocket engine burning liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene. Each x-racer will be about 1,000 lbs empty and be able to fly at speeds of more than 320 mph! Sweet!

One of the biggest problems that anyone could see is the duration at which these planes can fly as well as how long these planes need to take to be refueled. Initial testing has shown that they can fly for 4 minutes of “boosting” where the engine will be powered and then up to 10 minutes of gliding. The planes will then need to be refueled which will take 5 to 10 minutes.

It sounds like the x-racer planes will be able to keep the excitement going.

The Rocket Racing League or RRL was launched back on October 5, 2005. The founder, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, who also brought the world the X-Prize, jumped full force into his next venture which promised to bring efficient, low-cost rocket racers, to the world of sports and entertainment!

For those of you who don’t remember, the original X-Prize was the $10 million contest to see who could build the first aircraft with the potential to commercialize space flight! A revolutionary contest that fostered the development and innovation of many great entrants to build a craft that could fly out of the earth’s atmosphere multiple times.

The winner of the original X-Prize was a company called Mojave Aerospace Ventures who won with the flight of SpaceShipOne, a small rocket that made 100 kilometer trip away from earth twice in two weeks!

Now that same spirit that fostered the Ansari X-Prize has been brought to the world of competitive racing. Sweet!

The Rocket Racing League hopes to travel around the nation hosting and running rocket racing events where multiple teams will compete for the Rocket Racing Cup amongst other prizes.

The RRL hopes to have many technological advances to allow viewers at the race tracks as well as viewers at home great views and interactivity with the race and pilots. A great vision from an already innovation leading man.

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We dig the RRL because it’s new and exciting and really brings a futuristic feel to the world of racing. Why should flight be restricted to a few air shows a year, or whenever you need to go on vacation more than 500 miles away?

Although only in it’s infancy, the Rocket Racing League is garnering lots of attention from around the business, science, and sports worlds. With key articles in Popular Science, Wired, and Business 2.0, the Rocket Racing League hopes to be the next big thing for racing.

Think Indy Car on steroids!