Hasta La Gadget!

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/whiteknighttwo_2.jpg” width=”686″ height=”410″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″We saw a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5110215/virgin-galactics-whiteknighttwo-performing-runway-tests”ground tests last week/a, but yesterday morning WhiteKnightTwo—the funky-looking double-wide plane that will take SpaceShipTwo and its cargo of millionaires on suborbital spaceflights—finally a href=”http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=7772″took off/a on its maiden voyage./p pThe flight lasted just under an hour, and apparently all went according to plan. You can see some brief in-flight videos at a href=”http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2008/12/world-exclusive-video-whitekni.html”Flightglobal/a./p pI’m digging the design, resembling the two P-51s bolted together for the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-82_Twin_Mustang”F-82 Twin Mustang/a—the last piston-engined fighter ever ordered into producation by the USAF. [a href=”http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=7772″Space Fellowship/a via a href=”http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F21%2F2022248from=rss”Slashdot/a, Photo: a href=”http://mojaveskies.blogspot.com/”Alan Radecki/a]/p br clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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