The folks from Playback @ Yahoo! Games give a great summary of the recent RRL exhibitions and future of the most amazing interactive sport you will experience.

“That’s the kind of crazy idea we look forward to playing along with”

We are literally days away from going gold and submitting to Apple and are so proud of our team that has spent months and months working to deliver this first true Rocket Racing League experience for gamers.

Hopefully in the next few weeks the game will be live in the App Store and virtual pilots from around the world will be posting score results, featured on Facebook Walls & our own Global Leaderboard hosted on this site.  Players can post results from single player and multilayer by the way.

Perhaps there will be some sponsored competitions……..<wink>

Check back soon to find out more.

Looping Webcast of the entire air show including the first public demonstration flights of the Mark III X-Racer and all of the amazing flying stunts & aerial performers from the show!!!
Hosted by award winning national anchor Miles O’Brien with special guests NASA Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Owen Garriott, and John Herrington, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, and other distinguished participants.
(original air date: April 24th, 2010 – Tulsa, OK)

LOG-IN: http://www.livestream.com/rocketracing

Great article on the history making X-Racer flights!

Rocket racers, shuttles, and Tulsa by Jeff Foust (The Space Review)

The new X-Racers, powered by their Armadillo engines, performed a flawless initial set of flights early Saturday afternoon. Taking off less than a half-minute apart from a runway out of view from the air show audience, the two aircraft quickly zoomed into the skies, using brief engine bursts to perform a series of aerobatic maneuvers before gliding to a landing roughly 10 minutes later.

Article on Space.com that discusses what make the Rocket Racers go and go fast!

Rocket Racing League Unveils New Flying Hot Rod – By Denise Chow

The X-racer engines are filled with 500 pounds of liquid oxygen and 500 pounds of ethanol, before being pressurized with helium to 320 psi (pound-force per square inch). When ignited, the engine produces a 15-foot flame and about 2,500 pounds of thrust that gives the vehicle liftoff within 4 seconds of ignition.

TechNewsDaily has a great article on Rocket Racing League, and mentions the iPhone game!

‘NASCAR of the Skies’ to Feature Video Game-Like Interactivity - by Adam Hadhazy

A Rocket Racing League app for the iPhone and iPad that comes out in two weeks will also eventually let fans virtually race their own X-racer with those actually zooming through the heavens.

For the Rocket Racing League and other organizations, these journeys into augmented reality could be just a taste of what’s to come. Doing away with expensive physical constructions such as stadium billboards and racetracks should open up many possibilities not only for sporting events but in everyday life.