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The firm building jet "motherships" and suborbital rocketplanes for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space joyride operation has begun posting flight-test results online. The move is perhaps an acknowledgement that the SpaceShipTwo programme and Virgin Galactic can only survive by maintaining high public visibility and …

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  1. Colin MacLean

    Branson's actual mum

    Does he have a virtual mum too?

  2. Yorkshirepudding
    Boffin

    engineering! report!

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

  3. Martin Lyne

    It's not like..

    ..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!

  4. amanfromMars Silver badge

    Immaculate Slave Drives in Daring BackUp Systems

    "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.

  5. DirkGently
    Stop

    Virgin Galactic??

    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.

  6. JC

    Scaled.com Website Homepage Now Links Tests

    ... as titled

  7. TeeCee Gold badge
    Go

    Re: Virgin Galactic??

    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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