"N329DF" wrote in message
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Look what Lindberg did. He knew that if his flight was a success,
that it would spark the imagination of others and help make
transatlantic travel routine. He was right, and Rutan and the other
X plane competators have the same idea as Lindberg. It may take
a number years, but it will happen.


Lindbergh's accomplishment was not the first nonstop flight between New York
and Paris in a civil aircraft, it was the first nonstop flight between New
York and Paris PERIOD. It sparked the imagination of others because it was
a first, and that spark advanced aviation. But the X Prize isn't going to
advance spaceflight, spaceflight has already moved well beyond manned
suborbital flight.