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with Branson’s mother in her 20’s as the nose art… It looks a lot more sleek and refined than what I saw 1.5 years ago.

The mother ship, Eve, is the largest all-composite aircraft ever constructed and has the longest single-piece composite aircraft part: a 140 ft.- long wingspan.

2 responses to “SpaceShip Two mated to the Mother ship White Knight Two”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    here are photos by others approved for public consumption; detailspaceshiptwo-second-rocket-powered-test Drop and ignite… literally burning rubber as the fuel and nitrous as the oxidizer (but they are shifting from rubber to plastic) spaceshiptwo-contrail-rocket-test Close up… spaceshiptwo-second-powered-flight-testThe civilian rocketry community launches hybrid rockets with the same fuel combo.

    Cool view from the spaceship-cam (to a peak of 71K ft. so far) spaceshiptwo-tail-image-3SpaceShip Three under construction at TSC, from NBCFrom NBC News site

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  2. donliddard Avatar
    donliddard

    interesting photo

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