We're very much obliged to Billy Bargagliotti of Memphis, Tennessee, for putting together an X-Plane model of our Vulture 2 spaceplane.
It's a work in progress, but advanced enough to give a flavour of how the aircraft handles, and indeed just what happens when you fire the rocket motor. Entertaining stuff.
As is obligatory with any High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) mission, magnetic trees have proved an irresistible attraction for the Vulture during the first few test flights. Here's an attempted manual landing just before arboreal intervention:
Suffice it say, we've moved future flights to the desert. There's more on Billy and the X-Plane Vulture 2 here.
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