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> It is. Just that it's the first such pair of aircraft that stay parked next to each other in all regimes, not just the one. Apparently not! I learned from th
by scottlamb 8y ago
> It is. Just that it's the first such pair of aircraft that stay parked next to each other in all regimes, not just the one.
Apparently not! I learned from the video embedded in the article (just before the paragraph starting with "The Next Steps") that Scaled Composites has already built one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight_Two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight...
and from there I found a wikipedia category about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Twin-fuselage_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Twin-fuselage_aircraf... including another Burt Rutan design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang
The Stratolaunch is just so much bigger.