What I found interesting in this site, is the attention driven to aircraft. Sir Richard Branson, owner and founder of Virgin industry, records and airlines, has devloped a glider airplane. Capable of going Mach 3.5 , ascend 100km (62 miles) above the earth, and will be available to the public for an amount of $200,000 a ticket.
There was a recent update of the glider SpaceshipTwo, about it being released from a mothership Eve, (A two plane connection that holds the plane).
The SpaceshipTwo was dropped at 45,000 feet. Scaled Composites test pilot and director of flight operations Pete Siebold was at the controls, with Mike Alsbury as co-pilot. After release, pilot Siebold completed the test run, checked the flight handling controls, and summed up an evaluation of SpaceshipTwo, officiating a successful trial. After completing the test run, the glider made descent onto the Mojave Air and Space Port with a smooth landing.
What I found interesting with all of this is, tht it seems even with the economy in slumps, people who have vast fortune and wealth, can still design/create technology. Interesting, and these corporations are not owned by the government or controlled by a vast cooperation within the U.S. Just a man owning a company with a mission and a dream.
The article bragged a bit on this being a future event of space travel, and the SpaceShipTwo becoming a future space crusier. Maybe some fake ideals, but I do agree to an extent with technology vastly increasing like this. Along with sci channels on telvision, NASA science expos, and inventions consistenly being brought up. I believe technology will one day allow easier access for anyone to travel in air and prehaps in space.
Only thing is the $, keeping the dream, and release of governmental red tape.
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