Space Ship One first powered flight!

: Can't see any other X-Prize team beating Rutan now
:
:I would be very surprised if anyone beat Burt and his bunch to the
unch. When has he not hit a target he set out to?
Grizzley
Solitare
Visionair Vantage
V-jet
Proteus
Starship
Ares
Triumph jet
Pond Racer
NGT/T46
Lotus Microlight
CM-144
AD-1 skew wing

Other than those, he's done very well.

HAHA, I guess I stand a bit corected...but having said that, what was
wrong with the Proteus? I think it hit the hit the target exactly and
the Pond Racer had a cooling system malfunction....

I guess if we are going ot be honest with ourselves, he has done more
to advance private aviation than any other single person in the past
twenty years...looking at the thing she has achieved.

Along with triumphs, there will be failures, but the tradgic are the
ones that are never brought to fruition by those who dream but never
do.

Besides which, the purpose of an experiment is to find out whether or
not something works. The fact that something didn't work as expected is
a disappointment but it doesn't mean that the experiment wasn't
successful. If you shoot for small targets at extremely long range, a
few misses are to be expected.

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wrote:

:When has he not hit a target he set out to?

:
Grizzley
Solitare
Visionair Vantage
V-jet
Proteus
Starship
Ares
Triumph jet
Pond Racer
NGT/T46
Lotus Microlight
CM-144
AD-1 skew wing

Other than those, he's done very well.

Silly, laughably silly. In point of fact, Burt did "very well" on
many of the projects you listed. Your suggestion that these projects
were failures is incorrect in several respects. Some of the listed
projects fully hit their mark. In that respect, your list is
erroneous. Of the listed projects that didn't fully hit their mark,
most were quite successful in many respects. Burt is a giant in
aviation. You are nothing. Don't pretend otherwise.

Many Rutan projects are proof of concept projects, as much as anything else.

It is possible for a concept to be proven as viable despite not meeting the
criteria that we normally associate with success. One thing that Rutan is
great at is going from concept to application quickly and economically.
Others following a more traditional path would have been bankrupt after the
first project.

"C.D.Damron" wrote in message
news:7hFEb.401493$Dw6.1249496@attbi_s02...
Many Rutan projects are proof of concept projects, as much as anything
else.

It is possible for a concept to be proven as viable despite not meeting
the
criteria that we normally associate with success. One thing that Rutan is
great at is going from concept to application quickly and economically.
Others following a more traditional path would have been bankrupt after
the
first project.

Thanks!!

I wish I could have said this myself C.D.

James Taylor
www.AICompany.com

"C.D.Damron" wrote:

One thing that Rutan is great at is going from concept to
application quickly and economically.

Excellent point. I'd love to see some off the stuff that
never made it off the drawing board.

Dave 'another kind of CD' Hyde