I’ve heard from a couple of sources that WhiteKnightTwo took off from Mojave Air and Space Port just before 8 am PST (11 am EST) this morning on its second test flight. Look for more details later today.
Update: WK2 landed back at Mojave at 9:22 am PST (12:22 pm EST) according to a source.
Also: more details from Flightglobal.com. Hopefully Will Whitehorn will add some details when he speaks Friday morning at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation conference in Washington DC.
WhiteKnightTwo either has serious stealth capability or your sources are unreliable. Mojave had a DC-3 crash today and WhiteKnightTwo’s test flight was cancelled. It did not fly.
Anonymous: I think you may have your days confused. The DC-3 accident took place on Wednesday the 4th, while the WK2 flight (since confirmed by Virgin Galactic in the Flightglobal.com article linked to above) took place on Thursday the 5th.
[…] associated with the flight, including flight time, altitude, etc. This was the first flight since February 5th and the third overall; the first was on December […]