Space Ship One Launch

It's 11:00am and I just got home from the event. From a college student who
has been to countless airshows, flown in a P-51 and a B-25, seen Chuck
Yeager break the sound barrier at Edwards, seen the space shuttle land, and
flown that wonderful first solo flight, I can say that this was just about
the greatest thing I've ever seen. This event filled me with many emotions -
one of the greatest of these is a desire to push myself at school and truly
earn my aerospace engineering degree. When the crowd finally spotted the
aircraft way off southeast (almost directly into the sun....), and a bright
new contrail appeared in the sky, a cheer broke out that was simply
inspirational. More cheers broke out 3-4 minutes later when that distinctive
sonic boom rattled the desert and a craft appeared directly above, slowly
looping down to a warmly greeted landing.

Today was a day I'll never forget. Definitely a high point in my life. I
don't know how the pictures/video turned out, but if it's any good and
there's interest, I'll see what I can upload. But there is simply no
substitute for being there....


-Tony
Student Pilot


"Jack" wrote
White Knight/Space Ship One launched approx. 1347Z (on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN,
FNN
in US).



Jack

Congrats, Tony - glad you were there to share it with us.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.

wrote in :

It's 11:00am and I just got home from the event. From a college
student who has been to countless airshows, flown in a P-51 and a
B-25, seen Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier at Edwards, seen the
space shuttle land, and flown that wonderful first solo flight, I can
say that this was just about the greatest thing I've ever seen. This
event filled me with many emotions - one of the greatest of these is a
desire to push myself at school and truly earn my aerospace
engineering degree. When the crowd finally spotted the aircraft way
off southeast (almost directly into the sun....), and a bright new
contrail appeared in the sky, a cheer broke out that was simply
inspirational. More cheers broke out 3-4 minutes later when that
distinctive sonic boom rattled the desert and a craft appeared
directly above, slowly looping down to a warmly greeted landing.

Today was a day I'll never forget. Definitely a high point in my life.
I don't know how the pictures/video turned out, but if it's any good
and there's interest, I'll see what I can upload. But there is simply
no substitute for being there....


-Tony
Student Pilot


"Jack" wrote
White Knight/Space Ship One launched approx. 1347Z (on MSNBC, CNBC,
CNN,
FNN
in US).



Jack





I lived on the west coast back in the 80's and was able to go up to
Edwards to see the first shuttle landing there. It too was a
unforgetable experience and I just wish I had been able to make it out
for this one.

Say, did the White Knight, or SS1, land first?

How long between the landings?

SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

--
Jim Atkins
Twentynine Palms, CA USA

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-Groucho Marx

"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
...
SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?

"Neil Gerace" wrote in
:


"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
...
SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

In article , Jim Yanik
wrote:

"Neil Gerace" wrote in
:


"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
...
SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

Take a look at www.scaled.com for photo's. No one will ever accuse Burt
of being an in-the-box thinker.
Pugs

Allen Epps wrote in
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In article , Jim Yanik
wrote:

"Neil Gerace" wrote in
:


"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
...
SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway
before landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a
kind.

Take a look at www.scaled.com for photo's. No one will ever accuse
Burt of being an in-the-box thinker.
Pugs


Well,it(the "white Knight") does follow the style of the P-38 and that
cargo plane I only remember as the "flying boxcar".

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

Perhaps just "Within the envelope" thinker. Al


"Allen Epps" wrote in message
...
In article , Jim Yanik
wrote:

"Neil Gerace" wrote in
:


"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
...
SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway
before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

Take a look at www.scaled.com for photo's. No one will ever accuse Burt
of being an in-the-box thinker.
Pugs