Spaceship One Makes Successful Flight One of Two

I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the X
Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America

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"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
...
I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to win the
X
Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on Monday.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America

Just talked with some folks onsite… While the flight was successful,
apparently it was not a piece of cake, with a couple of dozen uncommanded rolls
on the ascent.

Bob

Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to
win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on
Monday.

Did it count? It only carried the pilot.

VERY cool though!

"John Harlow" wrote in message ...
Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to
win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on
Monday.

Did it count? It only carried the pilot.

I believe the X Prize allows one human and two appropriately weighted
dummies. I was going to look it up for sure, but the XPrize website seems
to be crumbling under the load today.

When asked about it, Melville said he thinks he stepped on something.

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John Harlow wrote:
Bob Chilcoat wrote:

I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to
win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on
Monday.

Did it count? It only carried the pilot.

The rules require two passengers *or* the ballast equivalent
thereof, so a sack or three of spuds would do.

"Robert Briggs" wrote in message ...
John Harlow wrote:
Bob Chilcoat wrote:

I just noticed on Yahoo News that a few minutes ago Spaceship One
successfully made the first of the two flights it needs to make to
win the X Prize. The plan is for the second flight to be made on
Monday.

Did it count? It only carried the pilot.

The rules require two passengers *or* the ballast equivalent
thereof, so a sack or three of spuds would do.

....or one Jim Campbell.

Ron Natalie wrote:

I believe the X Prize allows one human and two appropriately weighted
dummies. I was going to look it up for sure, but the XPrize website seems
to be crumbling under the load today.

The blurb on the AOPA site says that the X Prize allows this and that that is what
they did.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
...

Did it count? It only carried the pilot.


The X Prize requires space for three people but not that it carry three
people. A pilot and the equivalent ballast of two people is sufficient for
a qualifying flight.