Robert Truax
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Captain Robert C. Truax was an American rocket engineer in the United States Navy, and companies such as Aerojet and Truax Engineering, which he founded. Truax was a proponent of low-cost rocket engin
Captain Robert C. Truax (USN)
1955 Project Orbiter meeting
Skycycle X-2
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The Skycycle X-2 was a steam-powered rocket owned by Evel Knievel and flown during his Snake River Canyon jump in Idaho in 1974.
Robert Truax
…Engineering, which studied sea launch concepts similar to the earlier Sea Dragon—the Excalibur, the SEALAR, and the Excalibur S. Truax also designed the Skycycle X-2, which he unsuccessfully tested on April 15, 1972, and June 24, 1973, and which Evel Knievel unsuccessfully used at the Snake River Canyon in 1974. The…
Evel Knievel's X-2-2 Skycycle on display at the Harley-Davidson Museum in 2010
Monument near the Perrine Bridge