WhiteKnigjhtTwo test thread....

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<img style="width:600px;height:399px" src="http://burmasitmone.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/whiteknighttwo-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br />WhiteKnightTwo is of course Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan's mothership for SpaceShipTwo, and now it appears to be fated to be a test vehicle for NASA, the military and private space companies. Lots of folks interested in this beast.<br /><br />With its maiden flight coming in a week or two some footage is coming out of taxi runs at the Mohave Spaceport. The test took place Friday, Dec 12 at about 1500h local time;<br /><br />Video Link.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><font size="2">"It's a big day," said Stuart Witt, general manager of Mojave Air and Space Port. "I think it's a real reflective time. When everybody's looking for a bailout, there are still people that are doing something for a much larger reason," he told <em>SPACE.com</em>.</font></p><p><font size="2">"And here we are on a Sunday morning...in a place out here in the middle of nowhere and really neat stuff is happening. It just looked beautiful," Witt said. "What brings people to this desolate landscape on a Sunday morning in December is more about what forced them here.&nbsp;Innovation by the private sector is a void being filled because NASA deserted 90 percent of the sandbox and left it open for us to fill."</font>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>
 
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These two videos are way too short, but they're all we have for now. More coming I'm sure....<br /><br />FlightGlobal.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<p><font size="2">&nbsp;The Scaled Composites venture of course uses carbon composites to achieve light weights for&nbsp;their suborbital launch system. However, diamond has 10 to 20 times greater strength to weight ratio than carbon composites.</font></p><p><font size="2">&nbsp;Then the recent advance of making synthetic diamonds of arbitrarily large size will have major importance of changing these suborbital ventures into orbital ones.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">&nbsp; Bob Clark</font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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