American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles
Waldo Stakes
Waldo Stakes
Born
(1955-11-23) 23 November 1955 (age 68)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation(s)
General contractor, builder of rocket vehicles
Waldo Stakes (born 23 November 1955) is an American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles.[1] Stakes is planning to break the world land speed record using a rocket car powered by a second-hand X-15 rocket engine, which he has named the Sonic Wind Land Speed Research Vehicle.[2]
Stakes was a founder and one-time curator of the Saxon Aerospace Museum in Boron, California.[3]
Stakes was a collaborator with "Mad" Mike Hughes in his attempts to achieve suborbital flight using a steam-driven rocket.[4][5]
^Lerner, Preston (December 18, 2012). "Waldo Stakes: A Rocket Man Chases The Land Speed Record". Automobile.
^Huffman, John Pearley (2011-12-26). "Is a 2000 Mph Car Actually Possible?". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
^Lerner, Preston. "Where the Wild West Meets the Cosmos". Air & Space Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
^Silverman, Hollie. "Daredevil 'Mad Mike' Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket". CNN. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
^Gohd, Chelsea (21 February 2020). "'Mad Mike' will try to launch his steam rocket again for 'Homemade Astronauts' TV show". Space.com. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
WaldoStakes (born 23 November 1955) is an American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles. Stakes is planning to break the world land...
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some research, he discovered that his relative was the owner of the Grand Waldo Casino in Macau. Tsang scheduled a meeting, gave a successful pitch, and...
The Flash Stakes was an important and prestigious race for two-year-old Thoroughbred horses and one of the longest running horse racing events in America...
Prohibition-era New York wedding of Miss Billy Perry. Other guests are Waldo Winchester (a thinly-disguised Walter Winchell), Skeets Boliver, Feet Samuels...
Nominated Norman Wexler Serpico The book by Peter Maas Nominated Shared with Waldo Salt 1974 Mordecai Richler Lionel Chetwynd The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz...
crowds greeted Edward everywhere. He met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Prayers for the royal family were...
as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry, along with "socialite Mrs. Waldo Peirce" (Dorothy Rice Sims) citing their flight in an autopilot-equipped...
Berkos, 101, American sound editor (The Hindenburg, Slap Shot, The Great Waldo Pepper), Oscar winner (1975). Susan Campbell, 92, English illustrator, food...
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Smithsonian. Retrieved October 20, 2020. White, Deborah Gray; Bay, Mia; Martin, Waldo E. Jr. (2013). Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with...
Alcott was attracted to or admired, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Follen and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the latter of whom...
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and Curiouser, "I inquired Waldo's height—he was six feet two. This seemed a dignified height. I told George to produce Waldo, which he did. We got married...
him to review including Bad Dudes, Skate or Die!, Karate Champ, Where's Waldo?, Sonic Blast, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic R, Sonic Shuffle, and Shadow the Hedgehog...
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