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Re: The White Knight turbojet airplane
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Sun, 4 Jul 2004 02:50:00 GMT
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"Øyvind Steinnes" <phoenix@online.no> wrote in message
news:I0B397.22My@lugnet.com...
> Not sure where to put this message, so I put it in lugnet.general for now.
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> After I had seen the launch of Space Ship One on a news broadcast on the
> television I was intrigued by the design of both the Space Ship One and • the
> airplane that took it into air : The White Knight turbojet airplane.
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> And a week ago a friend of me challenged me and asked if I could build • them.
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> Saturday evening at about 18-19 I startet building it. I have thought out
> the design in my head for the past week. At about 03:30 this night I was
> finished with the first version of this airplane. You can have a sneek • peek
> at
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Phoenix/White-Knight/white-knight_01.jpg
> or wait until the folder is avaiable at
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=89267
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> I is a bit tired now and just has discovered that there are some errors to
> my design; the body of the airplane (cockpit) is not so tubular shaped as • I
> first thought, and the back part is not round at all, it is more flat and
> the end is pointed.
> Another thing is that the wings should be longer and thinner....
Oh... forgot to tell where you can find pictures of the real one:
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/data_sheets/html/white_knight.htm
> Look out for new versions soon....
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> I have summer vacation and much free time to build for a few weeks now :)
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> Regards
> Øyvind Steinnes
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Phoenix
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 | | Re: The White Knight turbojet airplane
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| (...) Very nice model of the White Knight. I too was intrigued by the entire thing, and tried my hand at SpaceShipOne. It's not even close to the final (proportions are way off) so I'm not posting it. But I did find a very nice interactive 3D model (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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| Not sure where to put this message, so I put it in lugnet.general for now. After I had seen the launch of Space Ship One on a news broadcast on the television I was intrigued by the design of both the Space Ship One and the airplane that took it (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)
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