In last month's ten-page splash in this illustrious mag, Greg Moore and I presented a construction article on the Rutan (Scaled Composites) White Knight. This airplane is intended to carry SpaceShipOne to fifty thousand feet, drop it off, and watch as the space ship zooms to 100 kilometers. A heckuva project, and one easily worthy of comparison with the Wright Brothers whose adventures a hundred years ago were on a similar level of inventiveness and adventurism. However, you can imagine our embarrassment when we found we couldn't get the model off the ground. It refused to stay straight enough long enough to get up to flying speed. All things we'd been concerned about turned out to be correct. And, with the deadline actually past, we had no choice but to submit the article without the night report.
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