A prototype for the Thunderhawk rocket plane, the first craft built for the Rocket Racing League, is unveiled at Las Cruces International Airport during the Wirefly X Prize Cup festival on Friday, October 20. The name was chosen from among 2000 submissions from around the world. Michel Higgins suggested the winning name. He said that he got the idea from the propulsion mechanism of plane and tried to club it up with a bird of prey.
The Rocket Racing League is an aerospace entertainment organization, which combines the competition of racing with rocketry. These types of competitions would expose rocket propulsion technology in front of people and let them understand it in a much better way. They shall also generate public interest space and rocket technology.
Via: msnbc
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