Hadn't read this stuff before. I assumed they were single-use to orbit affairs.

It's too bad the thing has to carry oxygen on it's travels through the lower atmosphere. It would seem to me to be a significant weight saving if it could use atmospheric O2 up to where it was scarce, and then shift to internal oxygen.

Rutan fired the rocket for 52 seconds, and then landed. Must glide well, as you'd expect, wonder what the purpose of the touch-and-go was. Could demonstrate the ability to reignite the rocket without the touch.

Just coming to realize how complicated rockets are. Most of the time I've just assumed they opened a valve, gravity dumped fuel in, and off it went, hopefully more vertically in one direction than sideways in all directions. Pumps, indeed.

Looks like a lot of fun.

Regarding the ads. If a person paid enough, and named the entire plane "The Bowser", that fuel tank would have to go. Wouldn't be fit. Not for something like Oshkosh.

And then the plane wouldn't. It gets complicated.

Thanks for posting that. Interesting company.

Arf