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A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
ok, this one´s already famous... kyoto university, robogarage (? not quite sure)
but several future technologies showed up to experience today.
like an illuminated handbag to load electronical gadgets, driven by solar energy,
like digital cigarettes and WLAN wine glasses *g, different kind of cars (cells, hydrogen etc), space tourism by virgingalactic, basketball playing robots, dancebots, DJbots, windcraft for home use (high potential to be successful and useful), various art- and music objects, the new blackberry, first technologies to try 3D TV etc... enjoyed it very much!
Virgin Atlantic Airways - Boeing 747-41R - G-VWOW (c/n 32745/1287) - Cosmic Girl
UPDATE (December 2015) "Cosmic Girl" was withdrawn from Virgin Atlantic operation in October 2015. She is slated to become Virgin Galactic's "LauncherOne" air-launched satellite lifter after modifications are made to strengthen the vestigial structure of the inboard left wing formerly intended to ferry a spare "fifth" engine to now hold a 55,000-lb. rocket.
UPDATE (January 2017) - On November 12, 2015 this aircraft was re-registered by Virgin Galactic as N744VG.
UPDATE (November 2017) - On March 2, 2017, Richard Branson announced the splitting of LauncherOne operations from Virgin Galactic to a new entity, Virgin Orbit.
Nicely put together... part of the new Museum of Flight Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. White Knight Two will simply lift SpaceShipTwo to launch height, let SpaceShipTwo unhitch and rocket itself to suborbital altitude...
BTW, I cropped this pic to keep a distracting element out of it :-). To learn more about this commercial space venture... go to www.virgingalactic.com/
Sir Richard Branson and his mother Eve celebrate the roll out of WhiteKnightTwo, named VMS Eve after her. Credit Herb Lingl
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Falcon VTOL - VTOL Hypersonic Business Jet (This is not a graphics design)
New iteration update, Raven SSTO, up to 15,000 LBS payloads to orbit for apx $2 mln per launch. Compresses O2 and H2 fueled, not liquid fueled. Graphene Airframe, 6,000+F thermal resistance. Air Breathing Aerospike, along with the primary U-TBCC propulsion.
Details at link www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/falcon.php
Link to Conforming Tank Patent patents.google.com/patent/US20210080060
Link to Engines/Propulsion www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic/utbcc.php
Falcon VTOL is a completely new aircraft design, next generation technologies, and capabilities never seen before. As seen here, anything released publicly are early iterations to get a good look and feel for the aircraft type publicly. But rest assured, every single aspect of this aircraft, the technologies, physics, and systems are already developed.
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Sir Richard Branson and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson greet the crowd after landing in Branson’s private jet as they make their way to the dais to celebrate the runway dedication and also bring the audience up to date on terminal hangar facility progress.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Main hangar - detail
This image was taken on a recent tour of the Spaceport America construction site, near Truth or Consequences, NM USA.
Copyright Chad Person for Ideum, 2011
do not use without written permission
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Virgin Galactic brought their newest launch platform, White Knight II "Eve" to EAA Airventure this year. This was her public debut and I must say I was impressed. Now I want to get rich enough to fly in her or better yet, in Spaceship II when it comes on line............
I'm probably going to be away for a week or so again. I know I'll be out of an internet connection until Friday, then really busy until next Friday. Sometimes I wish I could clone myself.........
Main hangar - detail
This image was taken on a recent tour of the Spaceport America construction site, near Truth or Consequences, NM USA.
Copyright Chad Person for Ideum, 2011
do not use without written permission
SpaceShipTwo in full feather wing mode on a rapid descent from its drop altitude of 51,500 feet over Mojave,CA Wednesday May 4, 2011. The feathered wing is at its full 65 degree angle and remained at this angle for 1 minute and 15 seconds. The craft descended in this configuration at a near vertical angle at a rate of 15,500 feet per minute. The craft was reconfigured to normal glide mode at 33,500 feet. All objectives of the flight were met. The flight duration of SpaceShipTwo following release was approximatel 11 minutes and 5 seconds. This photograph was taken with high powered telescopes from the ground.
Burt Rutan, Sit Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic President, Will Whitehorn at the roll out of VMS Eve, Mojave, July 08. Credit Herb Lingl
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.
Main hangar - detail
This image was taken on a recent tour of the Spaceport America construction site, near Truth or Consequences, NM USA.
Copyright Chad Person for Ideum, 2011
do not use without written permission
A Range Rover Autobiography, the pinnacle of premium SUV luxury, took centre stage as it towed out the new Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – officially christened VSS Unity – at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and Space Port base in California, USA.