Ante Up
USA Today has an interesting article on the da Vinci Project's last minute attempt to win the X-Prize. What astounds me is that the team--backed by an online casino--is going to proceed with a manned attempt in early October despite the fact that they haven't conducted any unmanned tests. Pardon the pun, but the pilot seems to be gambling a bit in more ways than one...
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I may have missed it, but is it even possible to conduct an unmanned test flight of Wild Fire? For all the test flight Scaled has conducted of SpaceShipOne, none of them were unmanned, because the craft has to have a pilot (in fact, it's flight controls are relatively "primitive" by today's standards). For that matter, even the Space Shuttle never underwent any unmanned test flights.
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