Virgin Galactic White Knight 2

[123tonysony]

My spaceship is better.

[zico268]

I honestly can't believe that it actually flies

[ihaveleg]

anybody else drooling at the possibility of this becoming a reality?

[iszlaiadam]

@ihaveleg why would they research it if it wouldn't?

[iszlaiadam]

@ihaveleg You cant question dozens of great engineer minds out of blue. I'm pretty sure they know what they're building and what is it capable of.

[leedaocheng]

now tats a plane of the century

[Prruuhh]

Why don't they pull up the wheels? This way, they have too much air resistance.

[cjellwood]

that i the most fucked up plane I ever seen in my life. Whoever designed that thing needs a slap

[YaTEdiGo]

@cjellwood inform yourself a bit more man

[MrMamatis]

@cjellwood What a rediculous comment!!!!, Have you heard of Sir Richard Branson, in fact I don't think you have any pubic hairs yet, now, go to your room and do your homework.

[dopemelody]

it doesn't seem stable. specifically, the wing connection looks like it could break any time.

[alongthebluff]

Two cockpits? Which side control the flight? Take turns because of long flight?

[pacosaidso]

It's beautiful.

[eNotepad]

Can you imagine something like that but bigger ? With a real space shuttle ?

[Stacks5thave]

Build her bigger and take her to the moon 

[Alienmad462]

hour in space. 2 hour flight lol 

[jolaaki]

Doesn't the landing wheels retract in this design? And why?

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

remember the THUNDERBIRDS tv series

[D3mon5lay3r]

This is DANGEROUS setbacks. Crosswinds could unlevel the plane and all the weight will be on 1 side.

[yoyoyoyoshua]

There is no point in building it since the price to fly on it is about $200,000.

[jilumiah]

a 747 cost arround $40 million dollors, this is a much cheaper option to take the spaceship one to space.

[anotherrabbithole]

what's the purpose of this plane?

[gsbgd]

What if each pilot wants to go in opposite direction ?

=@

[dennisgunn]

That is an interesting looking airplane but I am kind of curious why they don't just use a already existing airplane like a 747 or such. It seems like they are spending money on developing something that already exists.

[alcondragon]

This is only the carry ship for the vss enterprise, this ship does NOT go into space, it only carries the enterprise which is going through testing

[dhtexcam]

totally bullshit

[PLISKEN12]

why so ugly?

[medviation]

Now that's the airplane version of conjoined twins. :P

[Helicopterpilot16]

This does nothing near to what a space shuttle does, the space shuttle can orbit not this!

[steam4o]

@Helicopterpilot16 the program is just going to be 5 minutes in space and back to earth

[carcasion]

Con ese dinero -te aseguro - se pueden resolver muchas cosas en el mundo....pero igual... excelente proyecto. Un abrazo desde Colombia

[Chris385261]

thats one rich guy lol

[IsleBeeBach]

Huh? What design? It looks like two airplanes glued together - and it flies... Isn't it supposed to fly? Okay - it's going to be more efficient compared to some other solutions, but sorry to say - it doesn't look like something extremely sexy. Still a very cool concept, and of course I'm just jealous! Can I fly it please?

[KintambosVideoBlog]

it's going to carry a space ship

[IsleBeeBach]

I guess that all depends on the definition of a space-ship. We're fighting too many silly wars and should already be walking around on Mars, and exploring the Universe in RAMA-like (Arthur C. Clarke) "space-ships: :-)

[seanbootsean]

what's the point

[gravytrain1995]

it gose to near space and carrys the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo.

[rs17523]

at 1:17 on the wing it says virgin

[Samjapa]

amazing plane.

I love the design.

[vereez5]

lol

[divingdebs]

Nice to see WK2 - can't wait for Spaceship2. This will be the way into space and at a fraction of the costs of NASA.

[sirachman]

It is not space, just suborbital which amounts to a joyride. This cannot reach space stations or go into a semi-stable orbit. It simply goes up, you are weightless for a minute or so, and then you glide back down. Still cool, but if you are interested in manned flight for less than NASA go check out SpaceX.

[Cristalit3]

Whats spaceX?

[IsleBeeBach]

At least the guy (divingdebs) is optimistic, and Virgin is doing something, which is in my opinion still a lot better than doing nothing. I'm more than happy to give it a test run :-) Space: here we come!

[Cristalit3]

Do you know how much it would cost?

[twin7819]

I can't help imagining it getting split in two.

[IsleBeeBach]

I'm with you!

[icecreamman93]

Guys do some reaserch! This is a prototype for a plane that will carry a launchable space craft. Vigin Galatic is trying to be the first spaceliner.

[captainjeff86]

@icecreamman93 This isn't a prototype. This is one of the two crafts within the VMS fleet.

[aviator147]

whats it gonna be used for?

[horizonflyer9]

2 pilots and 2 copilots? thats stupid

[AllanVictoriaA]

It would be lovely if it had two crews....one wants to turn left and the other crew wants to turn right.....make a wish first then ready....set....go! Everybody gets their way, the plane breaks in half and the "bigger half" gets their wish come true!

[IsleBeeBach]

Yeah, a bit like a Siamese twins! Ouch - that must hurt a lot!

[codebluelsj]

really hard to landing ....

[onejace]

The Siamese twins of the skies. Why?

[coolharry1236]

yay virgin is english!

[aboodankaboot]

Are there 4 pilots, two in each "plane"?

[airsoftboy1313]

yes

[B3rettaZ26]

that looks awesome!

[worlock1422]

This is the aircraft that will take Spaceship 2 to Alt. then launch it, Same thing they did with Spaceship 1 but bigger.

[HazimKhayyat]

wt a stupid plane lol

[choidj]

The point of this airplane anyone? Besides it's high-stress frame that's bound to break.

[Wags182494]

Who knows?

[edgar5001]

its goin to carry virgin atlantics space ship 2 the first "space liner"

[eemontero]

How many pilots fly this plane?

[Darw1n1st]

Sorry, but pretty dumb idea from first glance.

[polecat987]

Point out the reasons it is a dumb idea, because of people saying this kind of things the aerospace industry has gotten so repetitieve and in the commercial aviation what we have is improved versions of the 707 nothing revolutionary and btw Howard Huges had the same idea to put two spruce goose fuselages together

[ButteredMilk]

There is a space shuttle that is attached to the middle and belly of that middle "wing", so it makes perfect sense.

[IsleBeeBach]

I'm with you! At least there's some type of innovation.

[gator966]

too much money on research!

why not build just 2 planes!

[cskog001]

Because they are thinking outside of the box. They tried something new. If you always stick with the old you can never discover new ways of doing things... :)

[Shane028]

Looks kinda flimsy ha ha

[fabiocravinho]

beautifull

[mmdghr]

i cant believe it stays together !

[Minidrags]

wow how come you get all this great footage??

[cd8100]

takes up so much room to store

[edgar5001]

so does a 747

[cd8100]

lol that too

[paoloscotto]

they had two fuselage,four engines but only two wings so ....that's the result :)

[thehellraizer]

I don't get it..why not build 2 planes instead of sticking 2 together? lol

[hobostreet123]

awesome. is this it's first flight?

[jonathankochhougaard]

Nice