Knight26 Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) 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
David Hingtgen Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Pic works, it's just huge (over 4 megs)
electric indigo Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 I guess it is meant as a tribute to the WWII noseart pin-ups, but I find the Galactic Girl quite awful.
David Hingtgen Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Virgin has always done "WWII pin-up" noseart. Every one of their 747's and A340's has similar paint.
Apollo Leader Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 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 Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 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 Posted January 24, 2008 Author Posted January 24, 2008 It's a simple and elegant design, nothing too fancy, I love it.
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