SpaceShip One to Fly at Oshkosh

Ron,
Neither White Knight, nor SpaceShipOne are government-owned. That's
why this was such a big deal. Space is going commercial.
Brad


On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:26:25 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:48:58 GMT, "Vaughn"
wrote:

Actually, SpaceShip One takes a glider rating. Don't know about the space
shuttle.

Government-owned vehicle...no FAA license required.

Ron Wanttaja

He was not argueing the White Night. The comment was "Don't know about the
space shuttle." By not saying it was wrong about the glider rating for the
W.K., he was supplying information about the "I don't know" part.
--
Jim in NC

"Edmond Dantes" wrote in message
...
Ron,
Neither White Knight, nor SpaceShipOne are government-owned. That's
why this was such a big deal. Space is going commercial.
Brad


On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:26:25 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:48:58 GMT, "Vaughn"

wrote:

Actually, SpaceShip One takes a glider rating. Don't know about
the space
shuttle.

Government-owned vehicle...no FAA license required.

Ron Wanttaja

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:43:22 GMT, Edmond Dantes wrote:


On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:26:25 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:48:58 GMT, "Vaughn"
wrote:

Actually, SpaceShip One takes a glider rating. Don't know about the space
shuttle.

Government-owned vehicle...no FAA license required.

Neither White Knight, nor SpaceShipOne are government-owned. That's
why this was such a big deal.

Yup, I understand that...the question was "Don't know about the Space Shuttle."
Shuttle's a government-owned vehicle, hence an FAA license isn't required.

Space is going commercial.

Space has been commercial for at least thirty years. Where ya been? :-)

Ron Wanttaja

Good one!


"We" had one "AJ 37 Viggen pilot" visiting an airport here in Sweden, taking
about that he was a retired airforce pilot, it was some years ago before
terrorist protection was popular, so he could visit the tower, he met a
private pilot there from the local flying club, and was invited to fly in
the C-172, after take off the private pilot banked 20 degree and the
"Viggen" pilot got scared, so he returned to the safe ground with the now
shaking passenger.

It doesn't take much to reveal a liar.

Another one was talking him self into piloting a Mitchell A 10? He lived but
it was expensive for the owner that let him fly without seeing his licence.

Jan Carlsson
www.jcpropellerdesign.com

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SPACESHIP ONE TO FLY AT OSHKOSH

SpaceShip One, the world's first successful civilian-built spaceship,
will fly into space at AirVenture 2005.

SpaceShip One twice flew into space with a pilot and ballast equal to
two passengers in September 2004, winning the Ten Million Dollar X
Prize. Plans had called for Mothership White Knight and SpaceShip One
to stop at AirVenture for public display prior to being put on display
at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

But in a startling change of plans, Designer Burt Rutan and EAA
President Tom Poberenzy announced that Spaceship One would make
another flight into space during AirVenture, this time with passengers
instead of ballast.

"Spaceship One will be piloted by Aviation Journalist, Publisher and
Test Pilot Jim "Captain Zoom" Campbell." announced Rutan. "The
passengers will be Campbell's close personal friends Chuck Yeager and
Bob Hoover."

"Yeager and Hoover were passed over in Astronaut selection 45 years
ago." said Poberenzy. "This trip into space is our way of making that
up to them."

Campbell, who reminds everyone that "We're a graduate of the National
Test Pilot School," will also be taking his first actual trip into
space.

"I'll pilot White Knight, since even Jim Campbell can't fly two
aircraft at the same time." said Mike Melvill, pilot of the SpaceShip
One's first flight into space. "We'll take off from Whitman field and
climb to nearly 50,000 feet before releasing SpaceShip One. Jim
Campbell will fire the rocket engine and pilot SpaceShip One to more
than 62 miles above the earth (328,000 feet) then glide back to land
at Whitman field."

"With our vast Pilot In Command experience we could simultaneously
pilot both White Knight and SpaceShip One easily." said and obviously
excited Campbell. "We have flown more than a thousand different
aircraft, yet we're still snubbed by those Guinness Book people, and
we're uniquely qualified for this important mission."

We plan to not only fly Spaceship One into space and return to the
runway at Whitman field, but we'll test the phugoid oscillations
during reentry." Campbell continued. "We'll make a low pass over
runway 36, rolling and looping in front of the crowd, then we'll make
a dead stick landing and coast right to the announcers stand just as
we taught our close personal friend Bob Hoover."

"We have worked as a test pilot, stunt pilot, flight instructor
(CFI/A/I/ME/H), you name it... We fly fixed wing, rotorcraft,
single/multi-engine, gliders, balloons, ultralights -- Did I tell you
that we're a former world ultralight record-holder -- jets, warbirds,
antiques... the works in our turbulent thirty plus years as a test
pilot." Campbell explained. "This mission will be even more
challenging than flying relief missions in Ethiopa or serving as
Bodyguard to then Governor Reagan. I've heard from many EAA members
and aviation enthusiasts about this flight, and I believe that they
are just as excited about this as we are."

This is a good thing for AirVenture as they are slowly strangling on
their falsified attendance figures... It will bring a suplus of
visitors this year, heck I might even go to look at Burt's handi
work...

OTOH, it's gonna take a lot of new ticket sales to fund all the
salaries and retirement bennys that are being sucked from the
AirVenture feed trough. (a simple statement of fact, not a political
manifesto)

denny