On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:


"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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Tell us, McNiacal, why is it not historically significant?

Why don't you just spit out what you're getting at?


It's not historically significant because the feat has been accomplished
before. That it was previously done by the government is irrelevant.

Now you really are trolling. Rutan & co are doing it with a fraction of
any goverment's resources, with a significantly different & new plane (&
tech), and hope to repeat the whole thing within 10 days (to win the
XPrize).

Brian.