Rocket Racing League

Those 17 books should be an easy put up or shut up for him. Any chance
one of them was published?

Tony

I know of only 2 books, one was about Ultralights and the other was about
saving Bob Hoover. I'd like to see the list. He must be in a cycle again and
thinks he has new people to fool. What a phony.Frankly I don't think much of an
organization that didn't look into the background of it's Advisory Board
members. Maybe they need a phone call.

Amazon lists 46 books by people named Jim Campbell and 13 by James R.
Campbell. My favorite: "Consumer Fraud and You"

Some more legit possibilities: Flyer's guide to ultralights, Air of
injustice (the Bob Hoover book), Sportplane Resource Guide (in a couple
different versios). But that looks like it.

--Rick

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:58:04 -0700, John Ammeter
wrote:

Jim Campbell, CEO of the Aero-News Network, is a 17,000 hour commercial
pilot and flight instructor, a graduate of the National Test Pilot
School

Wait, graduate of "the National Test Pilot School"? Thought he just
attended a lecture.

Corky Scott

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:19:11 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:58:04 -0700, John Ammeter
wrote:

Jim Campbell, CEO of the Aero-News Network, is a 17,000 hour commercial
pilot and flight instructor, a graduate of the National Test Pilot
School

Wait, graduate of "the National Test Pilot School"? Thought he just
attended a lecture.

One-week introductory course. Last I checked, NTPS doesn't even offer it
anymore, a two-week session is now the shortest.

Ron Wanttaja

In article MMk0f.439520$xm3.345436@attbi_s21,
John Ousterhout wrote:

When I saw this I thought it was the craziest thing I've seen since the
Moller Skycar: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9572408/


When I saw THIS it confirmed my opinion:
http://www.rocketracingleague.com/co...ship-team.html

- John Ousterhout -


Interesting -- Since rocket motors consume propellant at prodigious
rates, the actual powered-flight portion of such a race would be quite
short -- on the order of a couple of minutes max.

I think that the whole thing would prove to be pretty much a non-event.

Orval Fairbairn wrote:

In article MMk0f.439520$xm3.345436@attbi_s21,
John Ousterhout wrote:


When I saw this I thought it was the craziest thing I've seen since the
Moller Skycar: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9572408/


When I saw THIS it confirmed my opinion:
http://www.rocketracingleague.com/co...ship-team.html

- John Ousterhout -



Interesting -- Since rocket motors consume propellant at prodigious
rates, the actual powered-flight portion of such a race would be quite
short -- on the order of a couple of minutes max.

I think that the whole thing would prove to be pretty much a non-event.

Or it might appeal to people with that attention span. Hey, drag
races are 5-10 seconds long, there's lotsa money in that... maybe a
bad example, half the entertainment is when somebody's engine blows
up... sorry I brought it up.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the appeal to this will be getting
drunk and losing your hearing.

John;

I was told once that you can tell the quality of a person by the
quality of those he associates with. I am now very suspect of Dr.
Diamandis.

Once zzzoom said that he was a flightcrew member on the zero G
flights. I'm wondering what his position was? According to Part 1 of
the FAR's flight crew is defined pilot, flight engineer or flight
navigator. I think he was more on the line of what Nauga once said self
loading ballast.

Frank M.Hitlaw
Jakarta,Indonesia

On 3 Oct 2005 20:42:13 -0700, wrote:

John;

I was told once that you can tell the quality of a person by the
quality of those he associates with. I am now very suspect of Dr.
Diamandis.

Oh, I don't know. This is probably a match made in heaven for Dr. Diamandis.
He wants uncritical, fawning coverage of his activities, and he gets it with
probably no more than a kind word and a hint that Zoom will get a free ride into
space (eventually). It ain't journalism, but that last thing Dr. Diamandis
probably WANTS is a journalist.

As for the number of books, I can think of about six or seven, depending on how
many editions there were of the Sportplane guide. Then again, maybe he's taking
credit for books like this, too:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?T13231BEB

Ron Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Oh, I don't know. This is probably a match made in heaven for Dr. Diamandis.
He wants uncritical, fawning coverage of his activities, and he gets it with
probably no more than a kind word and a hint that Zoom will get a free ride into
space (eventually).

Round trip, or one-way?
(I can hope, can't I?)

ry
--

ANN Editor-In-Chief,
Jim Campbell, has also recently been selected by the X
PRIZE-inspired Rocket Racing League to be one
of four founding pilots, along with Rick Searfoss, Sean Tucker
and Erik Lindbergh, to command the forthcoming new generation of
Mark 1 Rocket Racers which will debut at next year's X Prize Cup
event.

"Robert Yoder" wrote in message
...
Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Oh, I don't know. This is probably a match made in heaven for Dr.
Diamandis.
He wants uncritical, fawning coverage of his activities, and he gets it
with
probably no more than a kind word and a hint that Zoom will get a free
ride into
space (eventually).

Round trip, or one-way?
(I can hope, can't I?)

ry
--

Cy Galley wrote:
ANN Editor-In-Chief,
Jim Campbell, has also recently been selected by the X
PRIZE-inspired Rocket Racing League to be one
of four founding pilots, along with Rick Searfoss, Sean Tucker
and Erik Lindbergh, to command the forthcoming new generation of
Mark 1 Rocket Racers which will debut at next year's X Prize Cup
event.

Zoom to fly a rocket in a race! What BRAVO SIERRA!

If Jim Campbell ever is (solo) pilot of a rocket in a race then I'll
issue a public apology.

- John (longshot) Ousterhout -