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Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer, Ultimate Flight
djellison
post Feb 8 2006, 12:11 PM
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Looks like S.F.'s just about ready to take off after a 24 hour wave-off

Going to be an astonishing flight if they can pull it off : 450 degrees of Longitude to cover. Amazing.

Using Google earth on 28.59683lat 80.6824lon - It puts it current RIGHT at the southern end of the Shuttle Landing Facility - right at the tip of the last yellow chevron on the 'run up' to the main strip.#

Live tracking here - http://www.virginglobalflyer.com/MissionControl/Tracking/

Amazingly, no news website seems to be carrying the take off at all - but one can just see a little screen of aircraft in the mission control centre, which I'm watching as a feed - it's bad but it works

Good luck to S.F. and VAGF smile.gif

(FWIW - I've pulled off this flight in FS2k4, KSC - east, to KSC, then NNE to Maine and E to the UK - it's EASY - don't know what the fuss is about. Using Autopilot at 16x time accell is possible in real life, right? )

Doug

(PS - update -Engine started and chocks away....and TAKE OFF!!!)
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post Feb 11 2006, 05:31 PM
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A last minute crisis, but he's on the ground safely, with the record, after a last minute diversion to Bournemouth!!

Kudos to Scaled, Virgin and Steve smile.gif
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- djellison   Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer   Feb 8 2006, 12:11 PM
- - PhilCo126   Weatherforecast is done by a Belgian-US team   Feb 8 2006, 03:02 PM
- - djellison   A last minute crisis, but he's on the ground s...   Feb 11 2006, 05:31 PM
- - PhilCo126   Another 'ultimate flight' is piloting a B2...   Jun 7 2008, 06:35 PM
- - PhilCo126   As they say at NASA-JPL: "The higher the tec...   Jun 8 2008, 09:52 AM
- - climber   Incredibly bad cameraman !   Jun 9 2008, 02:14 PM
|- - ugordan   Looks like an electric motor driven camera and tho...   Jun 9 2008, 02:17 PM
- - nprev   Looks like some sort of airfield surveillance cam ...   Jun 9 2008, 03:32 PM
- - tty   Blocked probes can be insidious if the blockage is...   Jun 9 2008, 07:09 PM
- - nprev   Oh, yeah. I went the rounds with <expletive del...   Jun 9 2008, 08:22 PM
- - PhilCo126   This also looks like a nice way of flying: http:/...   Jul 15 2008, 06:24 PM
- - nprev   Cool!!! Boy, those tickets sure aren...   Jul 17 2008, 01:01 AM

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