SCALED COMPOSITES PRESS RELEASE
Scaled Composites’ White Knight One and White Knight Two aircraft will
be making a rare public appearance at the Edwards Air Force Base “Flight Test Nation 2009†Air Show and Open house on October 17, 2009.
Over at Hyperbola, Rob Coppinger raises a key question about Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo, whose tail struck the ground during a test flight in Mojave on Monday:
It’s further evidence that Scaled Composites, for all its expertise, did not realise the degree that a two fuselage aircraft with a Boeing 757 scale wing would require larger vertical fins…
The big question is, can this WK2 prototype carry SpaceShipTwo (SS2)? A provocative question but while landing in a 15kt crosswind presents such a challenge the carriage of SS2 is not going to occur any time soon.
An excellent question, indeed.
