Even though the whole thing is going to be a hugely expensive treat, suitable only for those people with big pockets, the successful test flight of Scaled Composites‘ WhiteKnightTwo aircraft is a fantastic thing. It’s truly one of the most beautiful flying machines I’ve ever seen and is much more impressive in video than in still photographs.
Now what I’d like to see is somone doing a wing walk on it!
Burt Rutan’s work seems to be making real the fiction that I used to watch as a child that was Thunderbirds!
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