🎶 I'm a rocket mannn
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🚀 Meet the Rocketman, aka Robert Maddox, a man in his sixties from Phoenix, Oregon, with a love for inventing.
- He's best known for The Rocketman Show, his YouTube series, where he shows off his custom pulse-jet engine go-karts that are the largest of their kind in the world.
🔥 Riding the beast... Robert's latest invention, called The Beast, can race along at up to 90 MPH. At full power, its firey red engines reach temps anywhere from 1,900°F to 2,300°F.😳
- What inspired him to start building his outrageously fast jet karts? Growing up watching Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner on Looney Tunes.
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