A Canadian Press profile of Virgin Galactic client John Criswick also contained some interesting information about
Brian Feeney of Toronto and his 20-member team are continuing to develop his XF-1 passenger space plane. The CEO and chairman of DreamSpace Group, who has worked in the aerospace sector all his life, wants to offer a sub-orbital space flight that would cost less than $100,000. The industrial engineer says he hopes to show off the XF-1A, a prototype of his space plane, next spring.
“By the end of the year, or prior to the end of the year, we’ll unveil the full-scale XF-1B model which is the one which will actually carry passengers into space,” he said in an interview.
The final version of Feeney’s spaceship will take passengers as high as 140 kilometres over the Earth. It would measure about 14 metres long with a 10-metre wing span. The pilot sits in the rear of the cabin, elevated behind the passengers, with the control panel on his left and right sides.
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