Spaceship One, White Knight & other Shooter-like Craft!

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http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/photos.htm

Apparently this craft can boost enough speed to fly off into space without the aid of rocket boosters!
That and its companions are very "shoot em up" looking I say... (1945 Strikers, Raiden, R-Type, Garegga, etc..)

If that's not cool then what is?

The White Knight & Spaceship One merged in flight



Cool Squadron formation






Flying over a wind generator field



The White Knight



Spaceship One in Flight



Spaceship One & horizon



Spaceship One beating the sound barrier & earth's gravitational pull!





Space Ship One in Space





1945 Strikers II Squadron?

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http://www.scaled.com/index.html
This "Scaled Composities" is not the common little firm that you would find at your local province. It is owned by Virgin Atlantic and is responsible for some far-reaching & very interesting projects and other great endeavours.
http://www.scaled.com/projects/index.html

An enhanced Radar Cross Section (RCS) model of the B-2
aircraft:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/b2model.html

A Low Cost Battlefield Attack Aircraft (LCBAA).
http://www.scaled.com/projects/ares.html

Proteus, A High-Altitude, Multi-Mission Aircraft
http://www.scaled.com/projects/proteus.html

Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer
http://www.scaled.com/projects/globalflyer.html

Even Cars:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/gmcar.html

Also, Virgin Galactic is planning to make space travel possible using a modified Spaceship One & White Knight.
Book your tickets here:
http://www.virgingalactic.com/en/

You also might find interesting, the recently FAA proposed set of rules for commercial space flights.
You can read them here:
http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.c...docketid=23449

The pilot licensing stuff is pretty interesting...