There was a panel discussion at the Oshkosh airshow last night that featured Scaled Composites Burt Rutan and Bob Morgan and Virgin Galactic’s Will Whitehorn. Some highlights:
WhiteKnightTwo taxis to a stop after performing a demonstration flight with Richard Branson aboard at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow.
Richard Branson after his first flight aboard WhiteKnightTwo at the Oshkosh airshow.
More pictures after the break.
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Richard Branson is interviewed after his first flight aboard the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft during the EAA Airventures Oshkosh airshow.
PRESS RELEASE
Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments and Virgin Group today announced that they have agreed to enter a strategic partnership, which will see Aabar take an equity stake in the world’s first commercial spaceline – Virgin Galactic. To date, Virgin Galactic has been wholly owned and funded by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.
The deal, signed today at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin attended by Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, and Mohamed Badawy Al-Husseiny, CEO of Aabar. The signing ceremony is taking place alongside Virgin Galactic’s new carrier space launch vehicle, WhiteKnightTwo (VMS Eve) which is making its public demonstration flying debut in Oshkosh.
An interview with the crew of WhiteKnightTwo at the Oshkosh airshow on July 27, 2009.
WhiteKnightTwo flies over the Oshkosh airshow prior to landing on July 27, 2009.
Video of Burt Rutan answering questions while standing under the WhiteKnightTwo at the Oshkosh airshow.
WhiteKnightTwo made a picture-perfect landing at the EAA Airventure Oshkosh show in Wisconsin on Monday afternoon. Touching down under a threatening sky, Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane carrier vehicle thrilled thousands of spectators.
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