Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Damaged During Landing

摘要

The mothership jet built to launch suborbital spaceships for Virgin Galactic suffered landing gear damage Aug. 19 during a test in California's Mojave Desert, the aircraft's builders said. No injuries were reported.rnA mechanical problem with the leftside landing gear on the WhiteKnightTwo jet caused the "minor incident," officials with Scaled Composites - the Mojave-based company that built the twin-fuselage carrier plane -said in a statement.