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A private aircraft in able to flying beyond the atmosphere has been showed in California

Mojave, Usa - Designer is the same of Voyager

In Mojave's desert, in California, it has been showed the SpaceShip One, the first aircraft constructed by private, in order to carry the man beyond the atmosphere's borders. Aircraft has been designed by Burt Rutan, the designer of Voyager, the aircraft that in 1986 succeeded to complete a no- stop turn of the world, without flight refuelling. SpaceShip One will take off thanks to a mother-aircraft,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 45293
Rome, Italy, 05/14/2003 17:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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