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Spaceship One Makes Successful Flight One of Two
I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love America |
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http://xprize.primary.net/index.php "Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message ... I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love America |
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Just talked with some folks onsite… While the flight was successful,
apparently it was not a piece of cake, with a couple of dozen uncommanded rolls on the ascent. Bob |
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Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday. Did it count? It only carried the pilot. VERY cool though! |
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"John Harlow" wrote in message ... Bob Chilcoat wrote: I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday. Did it count? It only carried the pilot. I believe the X Prize allows one human and two appropriately weighted dummies. I was going to look it up for sure, but the XPrize website seems to be crumbling under the load today. |
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When asked about it, Melville said he thinks he stepped on something.
B Lacovara wrote: Just talked with some folks onsite=E2=80=A6 While the flight was succes= sful, apparently it was not a piece of cake, with a couple of dozen uncommand= ed rolls on the ascent.=20 =20 Bob =20 =20 |
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John Harlow wrote:
Bob Chilcoat wrote: I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday. Did it count? It only carried the pilot. The rules require two passengers *or* the ballast equivalent thereof, so a sack or three of spuds would do. |
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"Robert Briggs" wrote in message ... John Harlow wrote: Bob Chilcoat wrote: I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday. Did it count? It only carried the pilot. The rules require two passengers *or* the ballast equivalent thereof, so a sack or three of spuds would do. ....or one Jim Campbell. |
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Ron Natalie wrote: I believe the X Prize allows one human and two appropriately weighted dummies. I was going to look it up for sure, but the XPrize website seems to be crumbling under the load today. The blurb on the AOPA site says that the X Prize allows this and that that is what they did. George Patterson If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have been looking for it. |
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"John Harlow" wrote in message ... Did it count? It only carried the pilot. The X Prize requires space for three people but not that it carry three people. A pilot and the equivalent ballast of two people is sufficient for a qualifying flight. |
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