by Rob Coppinger | Feb 5, 2009 | Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
The return to flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo was delayed yesterday when a Douglas DC-3 that belongs to the National Test Pilot School went off the runway on take-off and crashed. Fortunately no one, as far as we know, was...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 17, 2008 | Space tourism, Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Hyperbola has learnt that Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo has made short runs under its own jet engine power and been shackled to a Mojave air and space port concrete platform test stand so its four Pratt & Whitney 308A engines can be fired up, potentially...
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 20, 2008 | Virgin Galactic, White Knight
Although this photo has a lot of reflection in it you can see the window portals on the other side of the WhiteKnightTwo’s (WK2) cabin and very feintly you can see the rings of reinforcement of material around them and nothing inbetween, as it were Compare that...
