Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like Craft!

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http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos.htm

Apparently this craft can boost enough speed to fly off into space without the aid of rocket boosters!
That and its companions are very "shoot em up" looking I say... (1945 Strikers, Raiden, R-Type, Garegga, etc..)

If that's not cool then what is? ;)

The White Knight & Spaceship One merged in flight

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/062104/captiveCarry%20inflight_lr.jpg

Cool Squadron formation

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/800/cap_car_starship_800.jpg

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/062104/captiveCarrywithStarship_lr.jpg


Flying over a wind generator field

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/800/cap_car_wind_800.jpg

The White Knight

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/800/WK%20airborne%20above%20front%20right%20800.jpg

Spaceship One in Flight

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/062104/SS1glide_lr.jpg

Spaceship One & horizon

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/800/sso_flt1_sunrise_800.jpg

Spaceship One beating the sound barrier & earth's gravitational pull!

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/800/316_first_burn_800.jpg

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/images/video/13p_boost.jpg

Space Ship One in Space

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/images/video/for_dave.jpg

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/images/video/0apogee2.jpg

1945 Strikers II Squadron? ;)

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos/15P/15P-P%20chase%20planes%20.jpg

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http://www.scaled.com/index.html
This "Scaled Composities" is not the common little firm that you would find at your local province. It is owned by Virgin Atlantic and is responsible for some far-reaching & very interesting projects and other great endeavours.
http://www.scaled.com/projects/index.html

An enhanced Radar Cross Section (RCS) model of the B-2
aircraft:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/b2model.html

A Low Cost Battlefield Attack Aircraft (LCBAA).
http://www.scaled.com/projects/ares.html

Proteus, A High-Altitude, Multi-Mission Aircraft
http://www.scaled.com/projects/proteus.html

Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer
http://www.scaled.com/projects/globalflyer.html

Even Cars:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/gmcar.html

Also, Virgin Galactic is planning to make space travel possible using a modified Spaceship One & White Knight.
Book your tickets here:
http://www.virgingalactic.com/en/

You also might find interesting, the recently FAA proposed set of rules for commercial space flights.
You can read them here:
http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.c...docketid=23449

The pilot licensing stuff is pretty interesting...