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Cue the traditional fanfare of trumpets, because this afternoon at 3pm UK time, we'll be whipping the covers off our sensational Vulture 2 craft for the first time: so you can get an idea of just what the world's first 3D-printed, rocket-powered spaceplane looks like. Here's the beast in component form last week, straight out …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    3G

    If you are streaming over 3G using Mobistar, it'll almost defo go tits up!!

    Seriously though, good luck to the whole team! We're cheering you on from Gibraltar, see if you can land her on our runway! ;)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: 3G

      Nah,

      The Spanish would probably try and take it prisoner and ask for Gibraltar in exchange for LOHAN

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Did the ignition test succeed yesterday?

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    1. Andus McCoatover
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      Alien

      The silence tells us nothing...

      If it didn't, the SPB team obviously went to the boozer to drown their sorrows.

      If it did, the SPB team obviously went to the boozer to celebrate.

      Either way, I wouldn't expect much till the mother-of-all-hangovers subsides...

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  3. graeme leggett Silver badge

    Stunning at the moment

    Can't wait to see the finished article.

    Hoping for something in the best traditions of Dan Dare, Thunderbirds and the golden age of British flight ( "Empire of the Clouds" by James Hamilton-Paterson)

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  4. ukgnome

    Dammit stupid firewall - stupid corporate firewall

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    1. Andus McCoatover
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      BYOD!

      Surreptitiously secreted 7" tablet, and a long toilet break?

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      1. joeW
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        Re: BYOD!

        Thank god you specified "tablet" in that post.

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  5. Number6

    Orientation

    so don't be surprised if the whole thing goes titsup at some point.

    Mount the tits on the correct part of the fuselage so that when they are up, the net result is that it's still pointing in the right direction.

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  6. Anonymous Custard
    Headmaster

    The missing competition

    One thing that struck me on my journey to work this morning (must look where I'm going more) is that whilst we've had commentard competitions for naming almost all of the components for LOHAN (and indeed PARIS before it), there's one element that surely deserves a name more than anything - our heroic playmonaut?

    Come on, with all the sterling service that he (or indeed she, given many of Hollywood's plastic people are of the lady persuasion) has given in the air, on Spanish mountainsides and of course in the English Channel (RIP Playmonaut Snr) isn't it about time they were given a suitably heroic (or cheesy) name themselves?

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    1. Shrimpling
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      Re: The missing competition

      I propose Herschel or Alekseyevich.

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    2. Stratman
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      Re: The missing competition

      Don't name them. Then you don't become attached.

      It's for the best.

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  7. Gonebirdin

    AirFix?

    It's gonna take a lot of tins to paint that bugger

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    1. graeme leggett Silver badge
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      Re: AirFix?

      It's OK, Humbrol do cans of spray these days.

      And recently a line of RLM colours in enamel - but they would make it hard to track visually.

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  8. David Nash Silver badge

    That batc.tv video feed never works for me, maybe its the corporate firewall. I could see the chat though.

    It was nice to follow the track on the map but no live video for me.

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  9. Miek
    Coat

    Colonel, you better take a look at this radar. What is it, son? I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant ...

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  10. Richard Altmann
    Paris Hilton

    Name ?

    Some say he/she´s been moulded without a serial number to cover up his/her existence at all. All we know is: He/ She´s might be retreating to the mysterious Swedish lesbian enclave to recover from his/her astounding stratodangles. Pics pse.

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  11. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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    Flat pack rocket powered 3D printed aircraft

    ...but the assembly instructions were poorly rendered hand drawn cartoons showing parts not included in the kit and you had one odd shaped part left over.

    We're doomed I tell ya, we're all DOOOOOOmmmed!

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  12. Astarte

    Original Directives

    If I recall correctly LOHAN was to be a paper structure. Is the new 3D-printed version made from liquefied Papier Mâché or did I miss one its many evolutionary stages. Perhaps the link was broken when the use of PARIS was dropped.

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    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge
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      Re: Original Directives

      LOHAN was always a 3D-printed, rocket-powered aircraft.

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    2. Miek
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      Re: Original Directives

      The PARIS project was the Paper Aeroplane Release "In" Space. This one is a Ballocket experiment.

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