| i've quit writing in here... figure it's time to move on from xanga.
instead i've created my own blog: http://daydreamersinc.com/blog/ it'll probably ask you for a username and pw... 4 times... cancel it 4 times.
if you don't care, then just ignore this last post. tchau~!
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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. |
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