Enterprise’s First Captive Flight – Air and Space Magazine: Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise, the civilian-built and -flown spaceship that will loft six paying tourists and two pilots on suborbital flights for $200,000 per customer, made its first captive carry flight on March 22, 2010 beneath its mothership WhiteKnightTwo over the southern California desert
Looks rather ungainly, but beautiful in flight, rather like a swan or goose (or flock of geese). I’m sure they have to be _very_ careful with the controls not to get any oscillation between the two sides, and not to torque the center too much if one side pitches up while the other pitches down. I suppose this is a mostly fly-by-wire craft — wonder how long _that_ software took to develop/debug…
It must be rough to be so cynical, Buzz.