"Space Ship One" Special Feature Part-1

[drobson]

The flight today did display "Virgin" on the side of the craft.

Darrell

[gbulger47]

Thanks Mike, I think everyone will enjoy this series. Wait till you see version 8 of X-Plane...:-cool

[ketakopter]

Great shots Brumby! That's a great idea to make these flights, i will enjoy this a lot! Thanks to X-Plane, the only one that allows us to do this, I love it! :7
Wow Space flights, I thought we would have to wait more years to see it happen. What a shame I have no $200,000!

[philliptan]

Great shots and great news... When I read it in the papers, I told myself... START SAVING!!! :-lol

[gbulger47]

Thank you Mikel, we are going to have a lot of fun with this...
:-jumpy

[gbulger47]

You know what I think? The demand is going to be so great that the price will come down. I think it is time for a Virgin Galactic Virtual Airlines in X-Plane...:D

[Shamrock128]

Excellent shots Brumby!

This is a very interesting time indeed, the next few years should be quite exciting :-jumpy

[FS9]

Great shots Brumby!! :7

[gbulger47]

Thank you everyone for you interest, excitment and comments. I will be setting up for the next drop which will be Part-2 in this feature sometime by the weekend with the post by the end of the weekend so stay tune for another ride!!! :-jumpy

[javelin]

Great shots!

Thanks for the post and ride!

Take care,

Cliff

[gbulger47]

Thank you Cliff...:)

[flyboy208]

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/User_files/40307ced4475a10b.jpg


Excellent post Brumby! I read in the Newspaper yesterday that Sir Richard Branson - the CEO and owner of Virin Atlantic has signed a contract with Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites to launch space flights in 2007 with an aircraft/spaceship based on Spaceship One.

The flights will last 2 Hours and all customers will recieve a weeks training before the flight. Cost will initially be US $200,000 each and over time the cost should be more reasonable for the private citizen.


The ships will be pressurized with no need for oxygen masks or space suits - and believe it or not - the first spacecraft will be called "Enterprise".


What an amazing advancement in air travel!!!


I will try to find some pics if the Virgin ship for you.


Mike

:-cool


And for more information check out www.virgingalactic.com

[gbulger47]

What an outstanding day of history in the making. Space Ship One's first official qualifing launch to secure the X-Prize and be the first privately funded launch to orbit was a great success today over the Mohjave Desert. The X-Plane flight sim is the only sim out there that can handle this in the virtual world. FS2004 could never handle the physics. I have decided to re-produce these amazing flights for you. I have been a huge fan of the X-Plane sim ever since it was created. In fact I used to host updates for the software on my aviation server a couple years ago. So, I am very familiar with it and guess what? The White Knight and Space Ship One are available and can actually fly these senerios. For your enjoyment part-1 though part-3 will be a test of the gliding charcteristics and nav systems. Part-1 and 2 will be a drop from 25,000 feet, part-3 from 53,000 the official drop altitude for the powered launch to orbit. Part-4 will be a drop from 25,000 feet and rocket boost to about 50,000. Part-5 a drop from 53,000 feet and rocket boost to just below the required 62 miles. Part-6 we will go for the gold.