03-24-2023, 11:05 AM
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When In Doubt, Build Hell-For-Stout
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Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Central Colorado
Posts: 178
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Cool flight.
I like your avatar as well.
Doesn't look like you used "Acme" motors though, thankfully.
Those would have "blown up" for sure.
Somebody MUST have "yanked the leever" just like Evel Knievel on that "Snake River Canyon" launch. NOBODY will convince me that Evel did not BAIL on that flight without IRREFUTABLE video evidence.
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As a kid who grew up watching Evel, and who had a poster of him standing on the seat of his Harley, riding a wheelie, I gave him a pass.
Every indicator pointed to him likely becoming hamburger in short order. Most folks would have backed out and not done the event, based on all the data that pointed to it failing.
Yeah, he may have been a real jerk in real life, I don't care. He was an entertainer, and in that role, I can't think of anybody that had bigger cajones. |