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Old November 1st 05, 06:05 PM
Paul Dowgewicz (Remove Caps in Address)
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Default Question On Space Ship One At Oshkosh

I was looking at the back page of Sport Aviation with SS1 covered, and
it trigged a question.

When it was at OSH, there was a group around Brian Binnie and he said
that they couldn't fly that particular day since the insurance
underwriter wouldn't let them. (I'm not sure that statement started
from Brian, but he confirmed it (unless the brain cells have forgotten
since then.))

They were able to fly the next two days.

Finally, my question: Were they originally intending to drop SS1 for an
unpowered flight from White Knight? I could see the insurance people
going bananas over that. That would seem like something the people from
Scaled Composites would try to do there. There didn't seem to be any
issues when they actually flew the two ships together.

That would have been even more amazing than the already amazing flights
they did for us.

Paul
 




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