White Knight: October 2008 Archives

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Although this photo has a lot of reflection in it you can see the window portals on the other side of the WhiteKnightTwo's (WK2) cabin and very feintly you can see the rings of reinforcement of material around them and nothing inbetween, as it were

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credit: Virgin Galactic

Compare that to this official photo of the interior of the prototype SpaceShipTwo, which has an identical cabin to the WK2, and the reinforcement ring is plain to see, suggesting that the rumours were right and that the WK2 Virgin Galactic rolled out on 28 July was, like the Boeing 787 at its roll out, just an empty vessel

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