Waldo Stakes
American general contractor and designer of high speed vehicles
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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]
Born23 November 1955
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OccupationsGeneral contractor, builder of rocket vehicles
Waldo Stakes | |
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Waldo Stakes | |
| Born | 23 November 1955 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Occupations | General contractor, builder of rocket vehicles |
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]