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    I have been fooled by some email hoaxes, but I'm pretty sure this is the real deal...

Click here: Slide Show for album :: SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan's entry for the X-Prize  (http://Click here: Slide Show for album :: SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan's entry for the X-Prize)
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http://www.rokits.org/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=x-prize (http://www.rokits.org/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=x-prize)

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Enjoy,
al

Al,

I watched the flight on TV last week.  It was broadcast on the major networks.

The designer, Burt Rutan, has worked a Mojave Airport for years.  

A few years back, Chuck Yeager and Rutan's daughter flew around the world nonstop in a plane BR designed.

I regularly see planes built to his designs flying around here.  They call them, "Variese" planes.  Big wing in the back, small one up front, pusher propeller.  They say it is stall proof.

It seems there is a BIG prize for the first team that can get a private space ship into space twice in two weeks with three passengers.  Space has been defined as 100KM above earth's surface, (62 miles).  

This was the first test to go that high...but only with the test pilot aboard.

God bless,

Thomas Maddux

 :)HEY AL:

IS THIS THE SPACE SHIP LOLLIPOP,
OR THE SPACE SHIP VOYAGEUR,
OR THE ENTERPRISE.

OR WAS IT A OLD BUCK ROGERS ROCKET.