Space Ship One Launch

SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

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Jim Atkins
Twentynine Palms, CA USA

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SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?

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"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
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SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

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"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
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SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

Take a look at www.scaled.com for photo's. No one will ever accuse Burt
of being an in-the-box thinker.
Pugs

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"Neil Gerace" wrote in
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"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
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SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway
before landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a
kind.

Take a look at www.scaled.com for photo's. No one will ever accuse
Burt of being an in-the-box thinker.
Pugs


Well,it(the "white Knight") does follow the style of the P-38 and that
cargo plane I only remember as the "flying boxcar".

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

Perhaps just "Within the envelope" thinker. Al


"Allen Epps" wrote in message
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"Neil Gerace" wrote in
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"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
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SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway
before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

Take a look at www.scaled.com for photo's. No one will ever accuse Burt
of being an in-the-box thinker.
Pugs

"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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"Neil Gerace" wrote in
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"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
...
SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway
before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?




Custom made,composite airframe(I believe),two jet engines.One of a kind.

Thanks heh, I just saw the pictures from the BBC.

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"Neil Gerace" wrote:

"Jim Atkins" wrote in message
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SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before
landing about 10 minutes later.

Any report of this flight on the net?

Only from every newspaper on the planet with a web site.


and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight?

It's a Rutan "White Knight", I guess. A one of a kind, developed
specially for this purpose. Presumably it benefitted from earlier
experience with Proteus, though it is configured entirely differently.


It was a great event to see, even if I had to take 12 hour flight across
the Pacific and back -- and sleep in the XCOR hangar -- in order to be
there.

-- Bruce