Patent ID: 7287722

Claim:
A method for racing rocket-powered vehicles against one another, the method comprising: providing race criteria to a group of racing participants, each racing participant having a rocket-powered vehicle, the race criteria identifying a race course and establishing a winner of a race as being the rocket-powered vehicle that is the first to complete the race course, the race criteria comprising three-dimensional safety data for preventing collisions between competing rocket-powered vehicles, the three dimensional safety data comprising a first vehicle-specific tunnel for the first rocket-powered vehicle and a second vehicle-specific tunnel for the second rocket-powered vehicle; launching into a first aerial flight path a first rocket-powered vehicle of the group of racing participates; launching into a second aerial flight path a second rocket-powered vehicle of the group of racing participants; and racing the first rocket-powered vehicle against the second rocket-powered vehicle, the first rocket-powered vehicle and the second rocket-powered vehicles maintaining a safe distance between each other according to the three-dimensional safety data by staying within their vehicle-specific tunnel.