Comments on: SpaceShipOne plus three years

By: Peter Shearer

Peter Shearer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:07:04 +0000

As curious as I am on what exactly SS2 will look like (lessons learned, new innovations incorporated) I gotta say… White Knight is going to be awesome!

I’ve heard it said that it’ll look more like Global Flyer (Capricorn) and will be supersonic. A wise idea considering how much easier it’ll make SS2’s pull-up (“hypersonic to supersonic transition tends to rock the wings”). Will probably be the weirdest supersonic jet out there… Another “crazy” design from Burt Rutan… (Applause)

By: james lee

james lee — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:25:31 +0000

I imagine we will see a lot of visible progress after
White Knight 2 starts test flight.

When people in LA start reporting the biggest baddest whitest
airplane in the world flying, then, start your timer.

Until then the onl other thing that will be visible will be
engine tests. Scaled is famously low-key, so,
i can only suggest counting cars in the parking lot
as a metric of effort.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:46:47 +0000

SpaceShipOne plus three years…

Jeff Foust has a few thoughts about space tourism on the third anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s first suborbital flight….

By: Peter Shearer

Peter Shearer — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:10:18 +0000

We wait…