Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like..

[ST Dragon]

Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like..

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? 😉

 

[IceDigger]

Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like..

So, where can I buy one?

 

[ST Dragon]

Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like..

That's what I was thinking too! 😉

 

[ST Dragon]

Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like..

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...