Spaceship One Roll Problem

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:51:45 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On 4 Oct 2004 05:18:44 -0700, (bryan chaisone) wrote:

They had a sign that said:

Space Ship One
Government Zero

That is a great statement! Only in America do you get the freedom to
do something like this and to publicly say such a statement and not be
imprisoned or killed.

Didn't realize things had gotten that bad in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, and Britain. :-)

To quote Fearless Leader... "you forgot Poland". :-)

Wayne

Hey Ron! sorry about that! You were the first homebuilt to go into space.

My bad...

Bryan "formerly Monk" Chaisone

Ron Wanttaja wrote in message . ..
On 4 Oct 2004 05:18:44 -0700, (bryan chaisone) wrote:

I just saw 'Black Sky, The Race to Space' on the Discovery Channel.
Boy! Wish I was on the team. What an opportunity to do something
good and exciting at the same time! I full of emotions when the
landing gear collapsed and when they Melvill made that beautiful
landing after reentry. Rutan is good and he has surrounded himself
with good people, that's the formula.

Only caught part of it, but it was an outstanding show. Got a kick out of
Rutan showing his orbital and space station designs. See my "OrbitOne"
postings for the problems inherent in scaling up the design...but if anyone
can solve 'em, Burt can.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?A14252179

That Melvill guy's got balls. From being a high school drop-out to
first civilian in space in a 'homebuilt'!

And an immigrant as well...

They had a sign that said:

Space Ship One
Government Zero

That is a great statement! Only in America do you get the freedom to
do something like this and to publicly say such a statement and not be
imprisoned or killed.

Didn't realize things had gotten that bad in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, and Britain. :-)


Oh yeah, forgot about THEM... :-)

History in the making. I have confidence that Rutan has the
experience to address the roll problem.

From the sounds of it, they know what the problem is, and will correct it
in the Generation 2 design.

Ron Wanttaja

Yeah Bob, you gotta love them.

Bryan

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message ...
MSNBC had a line at the bottom of the screen when he was being interviewed
after last week's flight that said "Mike Velvill" (sic). Our media at work.

On 4 Oct 2004 14:31:00 -0700, (bryan chaisone) wrote:

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message ...
MSNBC had a line at the bottom of the screen when he was being interviewed
after last week's flight that said "Mike Velvill" (sic). Our media at work.

Yeah Bob, you gotta love them.

Noticed that the CNN on-screen label for Dick Rutan identified him as the
designer of SpaceShipOne....

Ron Wanttaja

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:55:40 GMT, wmbjk
wrote:

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:51:45 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

Didn't realize things had gotten that bad in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, and Britain. :-)

To quote Fearless Leader... "you forgot Poland". :-)

Boreese, oubay losya e bellkou!

Ron "All right, it's Russian" Wanttaja

... and my spellchecker hates it! :-)

(bryan chaisone) writes:

They had a sign that said:

Space Ship One
Government Zero

That is a great statement! Only in America do you get the freedom to
do something like this and to publicly say such a statement and not be
imprisoned or killed.

Only in America would someone as clever as Rutan be so ignorant about
the history of government in this country and its role in creating a
place for entrepeneurs to thrive.

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote


Noticed that the CNN on-screen label for Dick Rutan identified him as the
designer of SpaceShipOne....

Ron Wanttaja

The whole CNN operation is clueless.

A couple years ago, my family was in Atlanta, and wanted to tour CNN studios
with our foreign exchange student. It was soon before my second back
surgery.

We were there early, and had to wait about an hour before the tours started.
I don't do well standing for long periods of time, and all of the chairs
were roped off in the "lobby" area, while they were setting up for a
televised meeting in said lobby/courtyard area. I sat down on the floor,
against the wall, in the line area, and was told I could not do that; that I
had to stand. No chair was offered, when I told them of my situation.

I should have sued, or threatened, under handicap provisions. I never watch
that news rag, anymore.
--
Jim in NC


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Bob Chilcoat wrotee...

MSNBC had a line at the bottom of the screen when he was being interviewed
after last week's flight that said "Mike Velvill" (sic). Our media at
work.

It could've been a lot worse. Has been.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/innis.htm

Think about the fact-checking that led to
this when you pick your news source.

Dave 'dumbfounded' Hyde

Bob Fry wrote:

(bryan chaisone) writes:


They had a sign that said:

Space Ship One
Government Zero

That is a great statement! Only in America do you get the freedom to
do something like this and to publicly say such a statement and not be
imprisoned or killed.


Only in America would someone as clever as Rutan be so ignorant about
the history of government in this country and its role in creating a
place for entrepeneurs to thrive.

Now we're equating a clever and funny sign with ignorance. Someone is
demonstrating ignorance here, but it isn't Rutan.


Matt

Hi Bob,

Neither Rutan nor his team made that sign. Someone in the crowd
handed Melvill the sign as he passed by on the SS1 and he held it up
to the crowd. Anyways, my comment was to celebrate the freedom that
we have here in the US, not to degrade our government.

Bryan

Bob Fry wrote in message ...
(bryan chaisone) writes:

They had a sign that said:

Space Ship One
Government Zero

That is a great statement! Only in America do you get the freedom to
do something like this and to publicly say such a statement and not be
imprisoned or killed.

Only in America would someone as clever as Rutan be so ignorant about
the history of government in this country and its role in creating a
place for entrepeneurs to thrive.