Congrats to Jeff and the gang at XCOR for being first over the regulatory bar.
I would write more but I am up to my ears in work, so just read the article.
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Congratulations to them!
I visited XCOR a couple of years ago. Here are a couple of photos of one of their testbed vehicles in a hangar:
http://www.survivalarts.com/archives/000284.html
Russell
Wild applause from this quarter. Nothing else to say. What else is there? Congratulations to everyone else.
Doesn’t look like they will be good to go on the Wright Brothers’ 100th, which had been touted as a target date. This is a particular disappointment to me, as it would have made a nice birthday present.
The company that might be targetting the anniversary is Scaled Composites, not XCOR.
I have no idea of the state of play of SC’s submissions. I know of a bit of behind the scenes things that went on; I presume they have prepared one.
At the current flight test rate I’d not think they could go suborbital in 4 weeks though. We might see them do a drop test and light the engine.
Or they might surprise me. Like I’ve said before, I’d not mind a surprise Christmas present.