Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like Craft!

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:35 am

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos.htm

Apparently this craft can boost enough speed to fly off into space without the aid of rocket boosters!
That and its companions are very shmup looking I say.

If that's not cool then what is?

The White Knight & Spaceship One merged in flight

Cool Squadron formation

Flying over a wind generator field

The White Knight

Spaceship One in Flight

Spaceship One & horizon

Spaceship One beating the sound barrier & earth's gravitational pull!

Space Ship One in Space

1945 Strikers II Squadron?

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:09 pm

Pretty cool, and that prop-driven passenger plane looks pretty neat too.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:29 pm

FatCobra wrote:Pretty cool, and that prop-driven passenger plane looks pretty neat too.

Yeah, isn't that the first Garegga ship?

magnum opus · Post by **magnum opus** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:11 pm

yeah there build a spaceport about an hour south of me pretty much just for this kinda shit, scaled composites and virgin galactic specifically. which is kinda cool. although it might kinda fuck with the astronomy.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:02 am

So, where can I buy one?

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:48 pm

http://www.scaled.com/index.html
This "Scaled Composities" is not the common little firm that you would find at your local province. It is owned by Virgin Atlantic and is responsible for some far-reaching & very interesting projects and other great endeavours.
http://www.scaled.com/projects/index.html

An enhanced Radar Cross Section (RCS) model of the B-2
aircraft:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/b2model.html

A Low Cost Battlefield Attack Aircraft (LCBAA).
http://www.scaled.com/projects/ares.html

Proteus, A High-Altitude, Multi-Mission Aircraft
http://www.scaled.com/projects/proteus.html

Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer
http://www.scaled.com/projects/globalflyer.html

Even Cars:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/gmcar.html

Also, Virgin Galactic is planning to make space travel possible using a modified Spaceship One & White Knight.
Book your tickets here:
http://www.virgingalactic.com/en/

You also might find interesting, the recently FAA proposed set of rules for commercial space flights.
You can read them here:
http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.c...docketid=23449

The pilot licensing stuff is pretty interesting...