SpaceShip Two Unveiled

[Knight26]

Copied from BJ over on SFM:

*Virgin Galactic unveiled the design for SpaceShipTwo today:

http://www.virgingalactic.com/pressftp/

Predictable design (knowing what SpaceShipOne looked like), but still looks very cool. And looking at that website, Virgin really knows how to put a press package together! There's an amazing amount of hi-res pictures and information there. Also, if you look at the nose of SpaceShipTwo in this picture, you can see that the first one will still be named VSS Enterprise.*

And to think I will soon be working closely with the flight testers from Scaled Composites when I transfer over to Global Hawk, man that will be sweet.

Warning these are not small pictures, dial up beware

Edited January 23, 2008 by Knight26

[KingNor]

pic no worky worky

[David Hingtgen]

Pic works, it's just huge (over 4 megs)

[electric indigo]

I guess it is meant as a tribute to the WWII noseart pin-ups, but I find the Galactic Girl quite awful.

[F-ZeroOne]

Anyone else think "He-111Z"...?

[David Hingtgen]

Virgin has always done "WWII pin-up" noseart. Every one of their 747's and A340's has similar paint.

[Apollo Leader]

Saw the pictures yesterday. I originally thought they were just doing a straight out upscale of the White Knight and Spaceshipone. The new Spaceshiptwo looks like a crossbreed between Spaceshipone and Boeing's X-20 Dyna Soar! Can't wait to see both aircraft up and flying.

[KingNor]

i'm not really a big fan of this type of plane design. I dunno what it is, none of it screams "awesome" in my face to make me sit down. I'm just like.. ok..

[Knight26]

It's a simple and elegant design, nothing too fancy, I love it.