Waldo Stakes
Waldo Stakes (born 23 November 1955) is an American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles. 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. Stakes was a founder and one-time curator of the Saxon Aerospace Museum in Boron, California.
Waldo Stakes
- Name
- Waldo Stakes
- Born
- 23 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Occupation
- General contractor, builder of rocket vehicles
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Waldo Stakes (born 23 November 1955) is an American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles. 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. Stakes was a founder and one-time curator of the Saxon Aerospace Museum in Boron, California.
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Stakes was a collaborator with "Mad" Mike Hughes in his attempts to achieve suborbital flight using a steam-driven rocket.
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• Name — Waldo Stakes • Born — 23 November 1955 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, United States • Occupation — General contractor, builder of rocket vehicles
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Waldo Stakes born at Chicago.
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