Rocket Racing League Announces First Team

NEW YORK – Two F-16 fighter pilots have tossed their hats into a high-flying ring as the first team to join the nascent Rocket Racing League.

Pilots Robert “Bobaloo” Rickard and Don “Dagger” Grantham, of Phoenix, Arizona, announced their Leading Edge Rocket Racing team and presented a $100,000 deposit to league officials during a presentation here Monday.

“We consider it a huge, exciting thing to be on the leading edge of our new sport,” Rickard said, adding that he and Grantham continue to fly F-16 jets with the U.S. Air Force reserves. “It’s kind of a unique talent [to fly]."
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