SpaceShip One

I going, I already got my Prior Permission to land on Sunday 6/20 at 4pm.
Couldn't miss history being made so close to home.

-Brenor



"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
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Anyone else planning to go to Mojave to see Burt Rutan's ship fly?

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tiero...ews/062104.htm
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Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.

Cool. Unfortunately, I am going to CA commercial, but this this has to
be a "do not miss".
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Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.




"Brenor Brophy" wrote in message .com...
I going, I already got my Prior Permission to land on Sunday 6/20 at 4pm.
Couldn't miss history being made so close to home.

-Brenor



"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
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Anyone else planning to go to Mojave to see Burt Rutan's ship fly?

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tiero...ews/062104.htm
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.

"Brenor Brophy" wrote in message
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I going, I already got my Prior Permission to land on Sunday 6/20 at 4pm.
Couldn't miss history being made so close to home.


History being made?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Brenor Brophy" wrote in message
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I going, I already got my Prior Permission to land on Sunday 6/20 at
4pm.
Couldn't miss history being made so close to home.


History being made?

As much as I hate feeding this troll....
Yes, Mr. McNicoll, history. History in the fact that this, if
successful, will be the first flight into the realms of NASA defined 'outer
space' by a civilian organization not subsidized by any government funding.
It won't be the last. And it even might lead to advances in aviation to the
benefit of us all.
While you, in your purile attempts for attention, want to create
animus, there are those of us who cheer the effort.
Way back when, I used to enjoy reading your posts. Some of them were
informative. Now, you pick petty arguments and contribute very little to
this small sector of the aviation community.

PLONK!!!!!

Warmest regards,

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer and Photographer

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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As much as I hate feeding this troll....
Yes, Mr. McNicoll, history. History in the fact that this, if
successful, will be the first flight into the realms of NASA defined
'outer
space' by a civilian organization not subsidized by any government
funding.


Swell, but why does that make it historically significant?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
nk.net...

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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As much as I hate feeding this troll....
Yes, Mr. McNicoll, history. History in the fact that this, if
successful, will be the first flight into the realms of NASA defined
'outer
space' by a civilian organization not subsidized by any government
funding.


Swell, but why does that make it historically significant?

Tell us, McNiacal, why is it not historically significant?

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

--
Jim Fisher

"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.

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.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
"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.

To you, perhaps. Not to the rest of us thinking individuals who've been
around since before the Apollo days. We recall that the first manned
mission outside the earth's atmosphere required a literal army of the best
minds in the world. It required the invention of enormously powerful
computers (with up to 16kb of RAM!) that could actually fit into a
suitcase-sized compartment. Only men with the "right stuff" as well as an
entire country behind them could participate.

Now? A few engineer-types in a warehouse out in the dessert are seriously
contemplating doing what, to me, still seems impossible . . . And may still
prove to be.

I'd call that "historic" but then, I'm not an idiot.

--
Jim Fisher

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Jim Fisher" wrote...

Tell us...why is it not historically significant?

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

Spoken like one who has given no thought to the difference between currently
inflated millions and 35 year old billions.

You'll notice some historical significance, I think, if a "private" group should
set off a nuclear device -- even though government entities have already done so.



Jack