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Saturday, 7 April 2018
quote [ Virgin Galactic's tourist-carrying spaceplane has taken a step closer to entering service after its chemical rocket engine was fired for the first time in the skies over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. With test pilots Mark "Forger" Stucky and Dave Mackay at the controls, the 60-ft-long (18 m) SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity pegged the speedometer at Mach 1.87 (1,424 mph, 2,290 km/h) within 30 seconds of igniting its engine. ]
These pilots train on a flight sim, but man, that rush when you light it up.
Follow-up to this post from 2014, about a fatal crash during a test.
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cb361 said @ 10:54pm GMT on 7th April
Bread pans are just a concept. The dough represents our lifespan that is slowly pecked away by the chickens of death.
cb361 said @ 10:55pm GMT on 7th April
Bread pans are just a concept. The dough represents our lifespan that is inexorably pecked away by the chickens of death.
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cb361 said @ 10:54pm GMT on 7th April
Bread pans are just a concept. The dough represents our lifespan that is inexorably pecked away by the chickens of death.
