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James Quigg
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“Mad Mike” Hughes, here in 2018, died in an accident. (Archive)
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The American was killed in a stunt attempt in California.
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Hughes worked on his own missile for a long time.
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GENE BLEVINS
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However, technical problems had delayed Mad Mike’s project.
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Facebook Mad Mike Hughes
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The missile from “Mad Mike” in his garage.
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The US inventor and self-proclaimed “world’s best gambler” Mike Hughes died on Saturday in California on a flight with a home-made rocket. The 64-year-old, also known as “Mad Mike”, wanted to reach an altitude of around 1,500 meters.
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However, the parachute did not open for a reason unknown until now, reports, among other things, the “Los Angeles Times” with reference to Hughes’ spokesman. The aircraft crashed near Barstow just a few hundred meters from the launch pad on the steppe floor.
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He wanted to prove that the earth is flat
The American pay-TV broadcaster Science Channel, who accompanied the adventurer with the project with television cameras, expressed condolences to the relatives in the short message service Twitter. The rocket launch was a dream for Hughes.
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The disaster happened in front of cameras, because the flight was to be filmed for a new series entitled “Homemade Astronauts”.
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Hughes had suffered serious injuries in previous tests. “Mad Mike” didn’t just frown with daring stunts. So Hughes had announced two years ago that he would be fired into the sky to prove that the earth was flat. The American was a member of the Flat Earth Society until recently. (Cat / SDA)
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