Watch a Virgin Galactic Test Flight from Onboard the Engine

"This is what a Virgin Galactic supersonic flight with the SpaceShipTwo looks
like, up close and personal. It's not quite space, but it's still damn gorgeous
to watch.

Virgin Galactic conducted its second supersonic test flight over the Mojave
desert. After being released from the WhiteKnightTwo mothership at 42,000 feet,
SpaceShipTwo fired a column of flames from the engine before reaching an altitude
of 69,000 feet. And they got the whole thing on tape."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/watch-a-virgin-ga...-en-1263318278

On 9/6/2013 1:04 PM, wrote:

http://gizmodo.com/watch-a-virgin-ga...-en-1263318278


Love the comments section of this website.

A complaint that SS-Two hadn't accomplished anything the SR-71 hadn't
already done in [19]90's.... heh heh....

Ah the young'ins...

Dave

http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srrcd~1.htm

David Spain wrote:
On 9/6/2013 1:04 PM, wrote:

http://gizmodo.com/watch-a-virgin-ga...-en-1263318278


WK2 has four engines doesn't it? I suppose that could have been
something else leaving the two contrails? Or are the engines on
either side of the WK2 close enough they might have merged?

rick jones
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On 7/09/2013 3:04 AM, wrote:
"This is what a Virgin Galactic supersonic flight with the SpaceShipTwo looks
like, up close and personal. It's not quite space, but it's still damn gorgeous
to watch.

Virgin Galactic conducted its second supersonic test flight over the Mojave
desert. After being released from the WhiteKnightTwo mothership at 42,000 feet,
SpaceShipTwo fired a column of flames from the engine before reaching an altitude
of 69,000 feet. And they got the whole thing on tape."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/watch-a-virgin-ga...-en-1263318278


Oh right. A suspended box containing a moveable large mass. When the
mass is moved inside the box, the box moves in the other direction, so
as to maintain the same centre of gravity overall. Usefulness for
propulsion - exactly zero.

Sylvia.

On 9/6/2013 7:42 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
David Spain wrote:
On 9/6/2013 1:04 PM, wrote:

http://gizmodo.com/watch-a-virgin-ga...-en-1263318278


WK2 has four engines doesn't it? I suppose that could have been
something else leaving the two contrails? Or are the engines on
either side of the WK2 close enough they might have merged?

rick jones


They look merged to me. You can get a better feel for the contrails from
the ground video seen he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqYAQ...8tlJwJvkNMmnKg

Dave