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• #5305 JJános addikt Oliverda #5300

  2009-12-15 18:13:33 #5305

  Összes hozzászólása itt Válaszok az összes hozzászólására itt Válaszok erre a hozzászólásra

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  JJános

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  válasz Oliverda #5300 üzenetére

  ...és vajon hol van ilyenkor tibi666?

• #5303 hunnylander őstag Oliverda #5300

  2009-12-15 17:43:32 #5303

  Összes hozzászólása itt Válaszok az összes hozzászólására itt Válaszok erre a hozzászólásra

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  hunnylander

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  A Virgin Galactic fejese. Nem hétköznapi figura. Nem tudom meddig lesz F1-es csapatfőnök, neki lehet, hogy az űrrepkedés komolyabb meló.

  Alex Tai performs a number of roles within the new spaceflight industry. In addition to his role as COO for Virgin Galactic, he is chairman of the Personal Spaceflight Federation and an officer of The Spaceship Company LLC, a joint venture between Virgin Group (Virgin Galactic's parent) and [Burt Rutan's] Scaled Composites. It will build Virgin Galactic's initial fleet of aircraft for commercial suborbital flights (360,000 feet or about 68 miles up), scheduled to start soon. Reflecting Tai's and Virgin's consumer focus, the Virgin Galactic experience will extend well beyond the flight itself. At the recent International Space Development Conference, Tai noted with delight that "passengers arrive for their flights 10 hour early" just to sit in the Virgin lounge.

  Trained as a pilot in the UK Royal Air Force, Tai went on to fly executive jets and holds a number of world records for flights with the U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett, including world records for fastest flights both east and west about in class C-1. Tai started his career within Virgin as an airline pilot for Virgin Atlantic, and remains in active service as a captain of the Airbus A340, the longest airliner in the world at present. (When he goes to travels between the US and London, he typically flies as a working pilot.) In 1997 he embarked on special projects for Sir Richard Branson. Tai has been working on the Galactic project from conception, and stood next to Paul Allen and Burt Rutan in mission control at the first X-Prize flight.

  In his capacity as a company officer for The Spaceship Company, he is determined that the SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo system and other systems to follow will mark a step change in levels of safety and affordability for human space access.

  In his role as COO for Virgin Galactic, Tai is responsible for bringing the SS2 system into commercial service. He will build the flight operations program at Mojave Airport in California before expanding operations to Spaceport America in New Mexico. He will pilot the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo, which will carry Sir Richard Branson and his family.

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