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Hyperbola has obtained video of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo travelling down the runway during a low speed taxi trial, with pitot tube fitted, at Mojave air and spaceport on Friday 12 December at about 1500h local time (2300h GMT)
Watch the video and read more about what happened with WhiteKnightTwo at Mojave air and space port on 12 December at flightglobal.com/spaceflight or click through to the extended portion of this blog post and see the video there
on December 13, 2008 5:32 AM | Reply
Am I the only one who would love to see a stress analysis of that wing?
on December 13, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply
It looks an impossibility that this thing will ever fly!!!
on December 13, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply
Flying WK2 should be much simpler than taxying trials!
Now where was that centreline?
I guess WK2 will need suitably wide runway and taxiway widths - particularly for 180 deg turnarounds.
on December 13, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply
Why do the inboard pylons look different?
Have they just left the covers off?
Dave
on December 13, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply
Basically yes. Only the inboard engines are operating and what you see is the cabling normally found within the pylon. We have other pictures to show that the outboard engines have never run.