SPY PICTURE: first image of White Knight II with wing fitted

by | Jun 30, 2008 | Seradata News | 1 comment

This world exclusive first image of Virgin Galactic’s White Knight II (WK2) with its wing attached to its fuselages shows the port side forward fuselage, WK2 has two such booms

The port fuselage does not have the windows present on the starboard fuselage, which can be seen in the construction images in the extended portion of this blog post

More Virgin Galactic images can be found here at airspace.aero

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In the image above the port boom is in the foreground and on the left hand side of the photo is the wing stretching out to the background

The starboard boom with the common forward bulkhead that SpaceShipTwo will use is where the two pilots and in-training tourists will be – obviously – aboard WK2. What makes the spy picture look different to the official image above is the work-in-progress addition of what I think is the lower half of the nosecone used by WK2 and SS2

The nosecone can be seen in the SS2 construction image below as Scaled engineers assemble it from its two halves and use tape to prove the assembly fit. Note the nose cap sitting to one side

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This image below (which is already at full size so don’t bother clicking on it) has had the area seen in the spy picture circled in red, by my own fair hand using the Paint software

The above image is a modified version of a Virgin Galactic concept image released in January this year. The windows in the port fuselage were part of the original Virgin Galactic concept image released and not changes made by Flight

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