Rocket Racing League Blog

The Rocket Racing League, which still reports an early 2008 race schedule, has added a third team to the mix and is considered a house team (being inside people and funding) to the Rocket Racing League.

The team is called Thunderhawk Racing, no doubt after the first RRL X-Racer plane, recently deemed the Thunderhawk after a public naming contest was complete. The team pilot will be Nick Mowery, a veteran pilot living in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Rocket Racing League is planning on having one more in-house team with a name and pilot to be announced over the next year. That will add to the only other two teams to join up so far. There has been no indication from news coverage of the Rocket Racing League as to how many teams will be needed to have a full race schedule but we forsee a short season if there are only four teams on board.

Hopefully the RRL can get a few more going over the next 6 months and have enough for an early race season next year.

A great artists rendering of several X-Racer planes flying through the air with their rockets firing and the mountains in the background. The RRL provided us with this picture.

The Rocket Racing League’s first named racer is the Thunderhawk. The concept plane that is turning into a real rocket racing plane may be taking to the sky’s as early as August to race in front of the world.

We have this picture below courtesy of the rocket racing league.

The Rocket Racing League officially announced the name of the first X-Racer plane that has been in prototype phase for a few years back in October of last Year

The Rocket Racing League held a contest in which the public, the fans of the Rocket Racing League would be able to vote on the name for the very first Rocket Racing League rocket plane. The name that a man from Maryland came up with was Thunderhawk.

There was over 2000 submissions for names and a panel of RRL judges took that name from a few thousand down to 10 names. They then allowed the public via AOL to vote on what they thought would be the best name for the X-Racer Plane.

The winner, Michael Higgins explained that he came up with the name because “The aircraft, with its rocket propulsion, combines thunderous sound with brilliant flame and light. So I worked up several names focused on thunder and light, and tried to connect those with a bird of prey.”

Cool Stuff.