| All of which doesn't, in and of itself, explain an explosion on the ground in Mojave. If it had happened at the Burger King down the highway, it wouldn't have made the papers.
Rutan is a very gifted, iconoclast aircraft designer. That doesn't mean that his project -- for a suborbital flight, something achieved by NASA 45 years ago -- isn't a toy for super-affluent adventurers like Richard Branston.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |