Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two

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The Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two (WK2), also known as Virgin Mother Ship (VMS) Eve, is a twin-fuselage, quadjet carrier aircraft designed and built by Scaled Composites as the air-launch platform for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

The aircraft accommodates a flight crew of two pilots, with space in the pressurized right fuselage for up to four launch crew members responsible for SpaceShipTwo operations.[3] Its payload capacity supports up to 13,600 kg (30,000 lb) delivered to 15,240 m (50,000 ft) altitude

Performance statistics

• 2,600 nautical miles (4,815 km) without payload
• 16,700 m (55,000 ft) service ceiling with reported capabilities up to 21,000 m unloaded
• 433 knots cruise speed when unloaded, 300 knots when ferrying SpaceShipOne

Crew & Payload

• 2 pilots + 4 flight engineers
• SpaceShipTwo adv. Customization increases capacity to 12

I could suggest SpaceShipTwo as a stand alone vehicle....

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oh hey you're back

big fan of the white knight two

dual fuselage aircraft.... 🤤

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Holy 2022

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Rea

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If only deo finished it

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Idk vro it looks pretty finished to me

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air launched vehicles are rejected

😔

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there's nothing stating that

#rejected-suggestions, or the document

smiles

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not in rejected suggestions but all previous aircraft suggestions as of late that are air launched have been denied for that reason

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trust me i read both and found nothing there

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bell x-1

x-15

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added before it became precedent

maddenning ik

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this is just the sst craze again

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especially when they can land on their own
but is what it is ig

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'we don't want to add them because n o'

'wdym there's already examples ingame?'

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how come he aint

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ask him

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deo kinda just disappeared

even the atr76 took like forever to be completed

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We could ask him-

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no

too much work

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ai detected

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I took the entire thing from Wikipedia, re-wrote it with my own words, copied all the pictures and then discord closed and wiped away all of my progress

I was too tired to do it again so I just copied from the first search result that came up that wasn't wikipedia

Unfortunately, it was Grokpedia

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no not that

the 2nd picture looks suspiciously ai generated

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It could be, but at the same time I don't think AI can recreate that plane so well

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true

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It's either a shitty 3d model or just really bad camera work

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goated suggestion nonetheless

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it cant

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A shitty modelling job is more likely

I've never seen Mojave arranged like that

Oh hey it is a model, I found an article on it by Jeff Rutan

https://community.foundry.com/portfolio/3127/whiteknighttwo-and-spaceshiptwo-over-mojave

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ah

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Eh, it's not that bad tbh

I mean hey

I'd rather a shitty model slapped together than AI slop

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I too am fancy of this plane

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hold on, this MIGHT be peak

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Thia got me thinking