Virgin space mothership test details posted online

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Colin MacLean

Branson's actual mum #

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 11:47 GMT

Does he have a virtual mum too?

Yorkshirepudding

engineering! report! #

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 11:47 GMT

"Let's see what she's got," said the captain. And then we found out, didn't we?

Martin Lyne

It's not like.. #

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 12:10 GMT

..they'd accidentally post a few tech specs, is it. ..Is it?

"The maiden voyage of the new XB-76 "Glory" bomber was a success with it only being picked up by several British radar stations"

Fnar. MORE SPACESHIPS!

amanfromMars

Immaculate Slave Drives in Daring BackUp Systems #

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 12:10 GMT

"Since being purchased by US military megacorp Northrop Grumman in 2007, it's theorised that Scaled may well be at work on a "black" (totally secret) fourth-gen stealth bomber of some sort."

That would be those Pesky Skunky Swamp Works for RISC Management Teams/Special Forces?

Are Northrop Grumman into Virtual Awarefare ........ Cloud Instruction with AI Leaderships?

MuI7 most Certainly are.

DirkGently

Virgin Galactic?? #

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 13:11 GMT

That's a bit cheeky - it'll be a long time before manned spaceships are inter-planetary, let alone leaving the Solar System and traversing the galaxy.

Scaled.com Website Homepage Now Links Tests #

Posted Sunday 24th May 2009 13:00 GMT

... as titled

TeeCee

Re: Virgin Galactic?? #

Posted Monday 25th May 2009 12:05 GMT

It saves that pesky rebranding in some years time when "Virgin Orbital" looks rather quaint.

There's nothing like picking a bang on, with it, state of the art name and then looking somewhat old hat a few decades later. Classic example of shortsighted thinking here is that quaint old vintage film company, 20th Century Fox..........

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