Talk:Scaled Composites White Knight Two

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[edit] 6 or 7 passengers?

I read elsewhere on-line that SpaceShipTwo holds 6 passengers and 2 crew.

I was thinking the same thing. This CNN article says 6 passengers (and 2 crew). --- ScramJones 19:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)]

The same article also refers to it as "WhiteKnightTwo" (rather than "White Knight Two") and says it's slightly larger than a 757, not the same size. --- ScramJones 19:35, 4 October 2006 (UTC)]

[edit] Excited!

Man I can't wait till they release the designs for these crafts.. I think WK2 will look a bit like the P-38 Lightning, but there's little guessing in what SS2 will look like. Are twin hulls even heard of in planes? — Jack · talk · 03:45, Sunday, 26 August 2007

Well, seem like your suggestion wasn´t even close to the real thing? RGDS Alexmcfire —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexmcfire (talk • contribs) 16:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

No, actually, I'd say I was pretty close; twin hulls, middle wing arc to carry SS2, number of jet engines, and everything! Slight errors with the tail and position of the jets, but I went with what I had — Jack · talk · 23:35, Monday, 25 February 2008

[edit] Spirit of Steve Fossett

In this article [1] from the SanFran Sentinel, it says that the first Virgin Galactic WK2 will be called "Spirit of Steve Fossett"... 70.55.86.160 (talk) 14:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

As stated above, the article from Time (2007-10-10) does not specify which half of the design will be named after Steve Fossett:

…a unique aircraft we are now building to launch people, payload and science into outer space next year. We plan to name it Spirit of Steve Fossett in his honor.

Whereas the article from the San Francisco Sentinel (2007-10-10) is more specific in that it will be the first Scaled Composites White Knight Two mother ship that is named "Spirit of Steve Fossett":

He added that the first flight will likely take off from the Mojave desert, carried up into the atmosphere from a mother ship he plans on naming “The Spirit of Steve Fossett,” after the explorer who went missing a month ago during a flight in Nevada.

—MJBurrage^(T•C) 18:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Virgin Galactic Spirit of Steve Fossett should be created as a redirect or an article. 132.205.44.5 (talk) 02:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I think that the WK2 names are the wrong way around. Reports of the launch on 23rd January 2008 talk about the first WK2 being named Eve and the new Virgin Galactic animation has Eve as the name shown on WK2. Note that this animation was released 3 months after the quote from Richard Branson about using Steve Fossett's name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.184.201 (talk) 09:11, 2 March 2008 (UTC)