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[Just Plane Noise[_2_]]

White Knight 2 demo on July 28. This plane, three times larger than the original White Knight, will be used to ferry SpaceShip2 up to its launch altitude.

[Lee[_3_]]

(Just Plane Noise) wrote in
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> White Knight 2 demo on July 28. This plane, three times larger than the
original White Knight, will be used to ferry SpaceShip2 up to its launch
altitude.
>



Thanks VERY much for posting these...
beautiful!

Also, the FIRST aircraft I've EVER seen
that I would NEVER get into.

Yes, NEVER!

There are a *few* runners-up, but this
one is a NO-GO.

Well, maybe with a 'chute.

[Just Plane Noise[_2_]]

On 29 Jul 2009 04:31:57 GMT, Lee > wrote:

(Just Plane Noise) wrote in
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>
>>
>> White Knight 2 demo on July 28. This plane, three times larger than the
>original White Knight, will be used to ferry SpaceShip2 up to its launch
>altitude.
>>
>
>
>
>Thanks VERY much for posting these...
>beautiful!
>
>Also, the FIRST aircraft I've EVER seen
>that I would NEVER get into.
>
>Yes, NEVER!
>
>There are a *few* runners-up, but this
>one is a NO-GO.
>
>Well, maybe with a 'chute.

With a 60,000 ft. service ceiling, you may want to re-think the
'chute! As they used to say, the first step is
a...WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Lee[_3_]]

Just Plane Noise > wrote in
:

> On 29 Jul 2009 04:31:57 GMT, Lee > wrote:
>
(Just Plane Noise) wrote in
:
>>
>>>
>>> White Knight 2 demo on July 28. This plane, three times larger than
the
>>original White Knight, will be used to ferry SpaceShip2 up to its launch
>>altitude.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks VERY much for posting these...
>>beautiful!
>>
>>Also, the FIRST aircraft I've EVER seen
>>that I would NEVER get into.
>>
>>Yes, NEVER!
>>
>>There are a *few* runners-up, but this
>>one is a NO-GO.
>>
>>Well, maybe with a 'chute.
>
> With a 60,000 ft. service ceiling, you may want to re-think the
> 'chute! As they used to say, the first step is
> a...WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
>
>

Yeah, I'd *like* to think I wouldn't be too drunk from the flat spins to
get out and find the ripper. That thing looks like a death trap to me.

One fusing point - no other bracing... too scary looking for sissys like
meseff... And I've been on a 727 watching up to 7 foot sections of
ailerons peel off and fall away... yawn.