MICHAEL “Mad Mike” Hughes, a stuntman and media chaser, has launched plans to replicate the world's most famous stunt - Evel Knievel's canyon jump.
Hughes is set to launch his Skylimo stunt, a steam-propulsion unit that may eventually launch in the Grand Canyon but is likely to first launch where Knievel's landmark event took place, at the Snake River canyon. Hughes, a chauffeur for 12 years, is building his Skylimo vehicle - which is being design and fabricated by Bob Truax, the ex-NASA engineer who invented and holds the patents on steam-rocket engines and built both of Evel Knievel' s SkyCycles.
Like Knievel's Skycycle, the Skylimo rocket will reach a height of 3,500 feet and an air speed of 350 miles per hour. The team's plan is to launch Mad Mike in the Skylimo to clear the Snake River Canyon, and during a later jump, Grand Canyon West.
SOURCE : VISORDOWN.COM
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