This is OUTSTANDING!!! Also, see this pic of SS1 doin' its thang:
http://www.hobbyspace.com/AAdmin/Images/RLV/Scaled/17dec03316%20079_cmp30.jpg
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To: Frank_Discussion
Cool
2 posted on
12/17/2003 1:47:09 PM PST by
RoughDobermann
(Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
To: Frank_Discussion; Brett66
Cool!
Bump for your space ping list.
To: Frank_Discussion
Thoroughly appropriate that this happen today, the 100th anniversary of powered flight. Note that Orville and Wilbur Wright were also a small company, involved in a non-government effort.
To: Frank_Discussion
My personal favorite
5 posted on
12/17/2003 1:49:15 PM PST by
RoughDobermann
(Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
To: Frank_Discussion
The only thing I regret about the Scaled Composites effort is that they're not using a B-29 as the drop ship. (I still get chills watching the B-29 takeoff at the beginning of The Right Stuff; the music and imagery bring to mind something akin to being in a cathedral.)
6 posted on
12/17/2003 1:50:09 PM PST by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: Frank_Discussion
The hybrid motor was tested just last week. One thing about private enterprise: they don't have to waste time.
7 posted on
12/17/2003 1:50:58 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: Frank_Discussion
Way to go Rutan!
The Wright Flyer repro non-flight was a bummer. But Rutan makes up for it!
8 posted on
12/17/2003 1:53:33 PM PST by
narby
To: Frank_Discussion
Pretty cool stuff.
9 posted on
12/17/2003 1:53:41 PM PST by
r9etb
To: Frank_Discussion
Our flight this morning by SpaceShipOne demonstrated that supersonic flight is now the domain of a small company doing privately-funded research, without government help. Great news.
The flight also represents an important milestone in our efforts to demonstrate that truly low-cost space access is feasible.
Which is what the government should have been doing for the past 20 years.
To: msdrby
WAAAAAAYYYYY COOL ping
11 posted on
12/17/2003 1:57:44 PM PST by
Professional Engineer
(Move along...These aren't the hobbits we're looking for.)
To: Frank_Discussion
The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort. AHEM. Someone forgot the Bede Aircraft BD-10… first supersonic aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort.
Pretty sweeeeet...
To: Frank_Discussion
These guys deserve a BIG bravo, something like a ten-minute standing ovation for this accomplishment. Great job! Simply outstanding!
21 posted on
12/17/2003 2:18:55 PM PST by
Elliott Jackalope
(We send our kids to Iraq to fight for them, and they send our jobs to India. Now THAT'S gratitude!)
To: RadioAstronomer
Ping.
To: Frank_Discussion
Only in America. Things like this let you know the American spirit is still alive and well; it is private individuals trying to do things no one has done before that makes the US great. Out-freakin'-standing.
31 posted on
12/17/2003 2:31:36 PM PST by
tortoise
(All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
To: Frank_Discussion
bump
44 posted on
12/17/2003 2:48:23 PM PST by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Frank_Discussion
HOT DAMN!!!!
45 posted on
12/17/2003 2:49:09 PM PST by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: Frank_Discussion
"Aerospace Valley" BUMP!
49 posted on
12/17/2003 3:01:24 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is Slavery)
To: Frank_Discussion
Did this in Lightwave.
53 posted on
12/17/2003 3:13:34 PM PST by
Brett66
To: Frank_Discussion
Thanks for the updated info!
FR is the only source of info on this project!
57 posted on
12/17/2003 3:17:10 PM PST by
bonesmccoy
(Defeat the terrorists... Vaccinate!)
To: Frank_Discussion
Interesting!
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