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Brian Walker to fly rocket-propelled craft launched with world's largest crossbow
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| 6/4/06
| Paul Miller
Posted on 06/05/2006 7:21:17 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Most people have some sort of fantasy about flying, but not everyone is as dumb about it as Brian Walker. Calling it Project RUSH (Rapid Up Super High), the man has built for himself the world's largest crossbow to launch a tiny rocket-propelled craft carrying his fragile body 20 miles into the air. He plans to pull 10 gs as the carbon-fiber bowstring releases and sends his little spaceship-like vehicle soaring into the air while firing a jet turbine with 1350 pounds of thrust. He will be wearing a Russian space suit to help keep his innards in, and has hydrogen peroxide rockets to help slow his descent, but we can't think his mother is very happy about this all the same. Right now Brian is waiting on FAA approval, and is planning to test the launcher with a giant fiberglass arrow before he launches himself this fall.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brianwalker; brianwanker; craft; crossbow; holdmuhbeer; propelled; rocket; wileycoyote
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Now here's someone with a goal firmly in mind: The Darwin Award for all-time dumbest way to die.
To: Reaganesque
A previous winner...
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To: Reaganesque
Now i'd pay to see that.Doesn't look very aerodynamic.
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:23:40 AM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: Reaganesque
He needs to mount the 'deathwish cam' on the front. I'd pay for a live feed!
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:24:35 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
To: Reaganesque
This one's gonna be good.
Evel Kneivel's long lost twin brother Loony Kneivel
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:25:21 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Cub Scouts-Teaching them to be men and politically incorrect in the process)
To: Thombo2
heh- we're thinking the same thing- maybe we could turn a quick buck?
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:25:25 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
To: Reaganesque
I presume he'll get Wylie Coyote to test this out for him?
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:27:15 AM PDT
by
Kenton
To: Reaganesque
You will put your eye out kid!
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:27:40 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: ovrtaxt; cyclotic; Thombo2; Line Of Departure; Baynative; socal_parrot; Reaganesque
Brian Walker gets ready for lift-off.
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:28:52 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: Reaganesque
Ten G's? Isn't that an automatic blackout?
Hope the rocket plane will fly without him until he recovers...
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:29:20 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you.)
To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows
"Hold muh beer" ALERT.
Check out the redneck version of Burt Rutan.
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:29:20 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
To: Kenton
Good question! Which brings to mind another question, did he get the materials for this contraption from Acme Corp?
To: Enterprise
I thought the crossbow looked like an Acme model.
To: Reaganesque
Note to Walker's insurance carrier - cancel his policy NOW.
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:31:26 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Support American sovereignty - boycott employers of illegal aliens)
To: socal_parrot
Can't be any worse than crawling inside a big helium balloon!
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:31:30 AM PDT
by
Tinman93
To: ovrtaxt
"Maybe we could turn a quick buck?"I'll bet he's already thought of that.I wish the guy luck,but there's no way i'd ever strap myself into something like that.Guts or just nuts????
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:31:43 AM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: Enterprise
Don't be dissin' Brian. He's a
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posted on
06/05/2006 7:32:58 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
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