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Virgin Atlantic Airways - Boeing 747-41R - G-VWOW (c/n 32745/1287) - Cosmic Girl (Dita Von Teese)
Virgin's G-VWOW "Cosmic Girl" also wearing the name "Dita Von Teese" just aft of the flight deck. Dita Von Teese's name was added to G-VWOW in June 2010 in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Virgin Atlantic service to McCarran International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas.
UPDATE (December 2015) "Cosmic Girl" was withdrawn from Virgin Atlantic operation in October 2015.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.
Spaceport America Runway dedication to Richard Branson and Governor Richardson with a fly over and landing by Virgin White Knght 2 and Virgin Spaceship 2
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
This is a beautiful section of the southern New Mexico desert where Richard Branson wants to build his “Space Port”
Already severely impacted by notorious jet fuel spills from White Sands missile range as well as Holloman Air Force Base, this pristine land is where Mr. Branson and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson want to build a mega space port for the uber-rich and a space theme park for you know…regular folks.
This plan is a huge environmental disaster in the making.
Please consider writing in protest to this plan before once again folks with way too much money have thought their I.Q. was raised with their bank account - - thank you!!
Space Port America
www.spaceportamerica.com/home.html
Gov. Bill Richardson
www.governor.state.nm.us/index2.php
Virgin Galactic
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Boing Boing tv crew, L-R: Dana Devonshire (Series Producer), Derek Bledsoe (Segment producer), Xeni Jardin (email sender, errand girl, president of craft service and thai takeout), Wesly Varghese (editor and shooter extraordinaire)
Shot by Alan Radecki (Mojave Skies Blog: mojaveskies.blogspot.com))
The Discovery Sport undergoes a rigorous test and development programme, covering 750,000 miles and over 11,000 tests.
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Virgin Galactic's launch platform for Spaceship 2, VMS Eve during her public debut at EAA Airventure 2009. I'm really glad I got to see that...
Wild Dog Design has been commissioned to design the iPad app interface for a revolutionary new book publishing venture, titled BOLD for publishers Kogan Page (launch 6th April 2011).
‘BOLD - how to be brave in business and win’ is the story of how 14 brands
have challenged conventional thinking in their markets. The book is
accompanied by a free iPad app. The app, in particular, allows the reader to
analyse and compare their own brand with those studied in the book.
More significantly the free, premium content included in the app serves to
promote the book while also enabling readers to unlock individually
recommended chapters that can be purchased and read from within the app.
In addition the reader can order a hard copy of the book directly, whilst being
able to sign up for relevant courses or events; thereby elevating the process
into a truly engaging and social experience.
Wild Dog’s creative approach was to embrace fully the project title and opt for
an appropriate colour palette, typographical and graphical icon interface that
complemented the BOLD brand vision. It was crucial that the user believed in
the message based platform, if they were going to be successfully drawn into
and engage with the message. The iPad platform proved a wonderful format
and accommodating space in which to achieve this process.
Ultimately most dynamic data is in essence a search/results equation.
Spacebar’s aim and brief was to transform content into an exciting experience
online. Therefore the very process of the reader’s engagement worked as a
design advantage. By taking the Q and A elements, one that we are all
familiar with from self-help books & magazines, we were able to turn the
publication into a rich personal and interactive activity. A process which will
hopefully get people talking and sharing with each other.
VSS Enterprise flies over Runway Dedication at Spaceport America, New Mexico_Photo by Mark Greenberg.
Spaceport America Runway dedication to Richard Branson and Governor Richardson with a fly over and landing by Virgibn White Knght 2 and Virgin Spaceship 2
Virgin Atlantic Airways - Boeing 747-41R - G-VWOW (c/n 32745/1287) - Cosmic Girl (Dita Von Teese)
Virgin's G-VWOW "Cosmic Girl" also wearing the name "Dita Von Teese" just aft of the flight deck. Dita Von Teese's name was added to G-VWOW in June 2010 in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Virgin Atlantic service to McCarran International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas.
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.
Dateline, Spaceport America, October 4, 2024
On the 20th anniversary of the Ansari X Prize-winning flight of SpaceShipOne, and the 67th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic have achieved one of the most elusive accomplishments ever - the development and successful orbital flight of a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle.
Derisively referred to as "The Unicorn" by project detractors due to the near-mythically elusive nature of a successful SSTO craft, the monicker was eventually used as the unofficial name of the craft, also known as SpacePlaneOne. Unlike its predecessors, SpacePlaneOne needs no mothership to carry it through atmospheric flight to the edge of space. Thanks to the newly-developed Variable Cycle Engine technology it employs, the craft can take off like any conventional airplane, powered by standard turbojet thrust at sub-sonic speeds, transferring to ramjet thrust during transonic speed, cycling through to scramjet thrust above the sound barrier and finally to full rocket-powered thrust outside of the atmosphere.
After successfully breaking the boundary to space as its predecessors SpaceShipOne through SpaceShipTen have so many times before, SpacePlaneOne made three orbits before docking with the International Space Station to prove its capabilities in that area, then returned to the atmosphere and powered flight via the unique and innovative "feathered re-entry" system featured on all previous SpaceShip designs.
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For Toys N Bricks "The Next Generation of Space Travel" contest.
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com
VMS Eve
Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public. Further in the future Virgin Galactic plans to offer orbital spaceflights as well.
The Scaled Composites Model 348 WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is a jet-powered carrier aircraft which will be used to launch the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. It is being developed by Scaled Composites as the first stage of Tier 1b, a two-stage to suborbital-space manned launch system. WK2 is based on the successful mothership to SpaceShipOne, White Knight, which itself is based on Proteus.
Virgin Galactic has ordered two WK2s. Together WK2 and SS2 form the basis for Virgin Galactic's fleet of suborbital spaceplanes.
The first WK2 is named VMS Eve after Richard Branson's mother; it was officially unveiled on July 28, 2008, and flew for the first time on December 21, 2008. The second is expected to be named VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett after Branson's close friend Steve Fossett.
Architects: Foster & Partners.
For details see this link;
www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/12/the-new-mexico-spaceport-bui...
The first production Discovery Sport has rolled off Land Rover's production line in Halewood, UK. The car will now make its way to Virgin Galactic's headquarters, to be used by the team as they continue to prepare for the launch of the world's first commercial spaceline.
Land Rover has revealed the new Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact SUV. The first member of the new Discovery family, Discovery Sport, features 5+2 seating in a footprint no larger than existing 5-seat premium SUVs.
Read all about it on www.LandRoverMENA.com