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03:23 p.m. EDT (1923 GMT) February 25, 2007  
 
U.S. Water Rockets X-12 Prepares for another historic flight.

U.S. Water Rockets X-12 Achieves 2,088 feet (636.4m), fails to beat it's previous record. 

U.S. Water Rockets kicks off their 2007 World Record Flight Season by sharing more details from some of their past successes and failures. Opening up some more of their secret archives, they reveal more experimental test data which has never been viewed outside their team headquarters. According to the recently released data, their X-12 Water Rocket encountered technical problems that prevented it from meeting the strict criteria set forth by the WRA2 to set a new world record. Once again, U.S. Water Rockets demonstrates that Water Rockets are very serious machines, and adhering to the WRA2 Rules represents an enormous challenge, even for a member of the comittee that first drafted the rules. 
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