Re:385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine
by ChuckMcM on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:49AM
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My wife and I saw this plane outside the hangar when we were driving through Mojave I seriously thought it was two planes parked next to each other. The scale is really impressive. I'm hoping there are some hints as to when it will be flying so that we can drive out and watch.
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Re:385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine
by throwanem on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:00PM
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> I seriously thought it was two planes parked next to each other
It is. Just that it's the first such pair of aircraft that stay parked next to each other in all regimes, not just the one.
Re:385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine
by scottlamb on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:54PM
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> It is. Just that it's the first such pair of aircraft that stay parked next to each other in all regimes, not just the one.
Apparently not! I learned from the video embedded in the article (just before the paragraph starting with "The Next Steps") that Scaled Composites has already built one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight...
and from there I found a wikipedia category about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Twin-fuselage_aircraf... including another Burt Rutan design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang
The Stratolaunch is just so much bigger.