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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SPKmes on March 22, 2010, 10:28:29 PM

Title: Have any of you seen this plane
Post by: SPKmes on March 22, 2010, 10:28:29 PM

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_cid=1502728&gallery_id=110094#6871164

Just looking at photo's around the world and this was here

Title: Re: Have any of you seen this plane
Post by: BrownBaron on March 22, 2010, 10:44:57 PM

I've heard about it. It creeps up to what's technically "space" and charges something like half a mil a head.  :rofl

Title: Re: Have any of you seen this plane
Post by: Reschke on March 23, 2010, 09:04:52 AM

Heard about it...its what happens when a multi-billionaire decides to spend a bunch of money on a project most likely just to prove that something can be done. We need more people like him doing all sorts of projects around the world...seriously!

Title: Re: Have any of you seen this plane
Post by: Mustaine on March 23, 2010, 01:50:09 PM

Yup, they flew it into the EAA last year and I got to see it perform.

it's incredibly quiet, you almost don't hear it. It's also huge, the wingspan is enormous.

Here's a pic I took, it didn't have the actual space ship attached in the middle.

(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z125/JB73Mustaine/IMG_2535.jpg)

Title: Re: Have any of you seen this plane
Post by: dhart on March 23, 2010, 03:13:12 PM

Looking at it you would have thought they would have put a single horizontal stabilizer on it. Seems too flimsy just being connected at the wing, what happens if you lose an elevator? Not to mention individual yaw movement in the two fuselages.