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Old May 15th 04, 06:24 PM
Larry Dighera
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On Sat, 15 May 2004 16:04:22 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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Except for the rules of the X-Prize, the details of the X-15, and pretty
much everything else.


Well, if that's true, you'll be able to cite the statements I made that are
incorrect. Please take a shot at establishing some credibility and do so.


It would seem that you errored in your assertion that the altitude of
320,000' was 8,000' short of the X-prize requirement:


From: "Steven P. McNicoll"
Subject: Rutan hits 200k feet! Almost there!
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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:37:30 GMT
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"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
. ..

Only 120,000 more feet straight up and they've made the first
qualifying flight for the $10 million X-Prize.


That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100
km.



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