Climb into the X2-SkyLimo for the ride of your life.
Initially, "Mad" Mike Hughes had planned to jump across the Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle this coming Saturday afternoon, April 2nd. However, when Ars spoke with Mad Mike on Monday, he indicated that he was having some last-minute issues with his steam-powered rocket and was racing to get everything ready for Saturday's big leap.
Unfortunately, he's not going to be ready. Mad Mike's final tests on Monday and Tuesday, before he was due to leave his Apple Valley, California-based home, did not go well. “Absolutely brutal. Just brutal," he told the Amarillo Globe-News. "This isn’t a scam. I’m beyond frustrated. Things just compounded."
Mad Mike aspires to become "King of the Daredevils," and Saturday's jump over the yawning Palo Duro Canyon was an important step in the master plan. His X2-SkyLimo rocket is capable of producing 4,000 pounds of thrust at launch, and he intended to rise about 3,500 feet into the air and reach 350mph before descending back to Earth under a parachute. "It’s a bad boy," he said of the rocket in an interview with Ars. "You’re unleashing the devil with this thing. That’s the only way to describe it."
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