pigsty Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 All being well, some time after 10pm tonight (9 January) a modified 747 will take off from Newquay Airport and launch several small satellites. They're calling it Spaceport Cornwall now, which may be a bit pretentious but it would be nice to think it could become a working, viable reality all the same. I've seen the aircraft on the apron outside the big old Nimrod hangar, and it's surprising how much larger it is than anything you used to see parked out there. (Also a lot more red and white.) Good luck to them, eh? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 It could spur a new drive in obtaining Boeing 747 kits, plus open a new venture for aftermarket specialists and decal producers. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Spaceport Cornwall?- You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious 🙂 Good luck to Virgin Orbit! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 15 hours ago, Troffa said: Spaceport Cornwall?- You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious Sounds like you've been over to Helston, when the Junglies used to get back from their Norway deployment. Couldn't miss us, we were the ones wearing white long-johns & vests; Mukluks and Huckleberry Hound hats; usually drinking copious amounts of Spingo. Mike 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Spent a while at Newquay Airport/ RAF St Mawgan / Mos Eisley Spaceport a few years ago with a certain West country Helicopter manufacturer- I see that the Old Air Traffic Control tower may have gone to make way for the new Orbit Hangar facility, just across the pan from our old rattling Shackleton Hangar. Looking forward to seeing this take off and launch (and I'm with Bootneck- surely this has got to mean some new 747 releases- "Cosmic Girl" looks fabulous.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 5 hours ago, bootneck said: Sounds like you've been over to Helston, when the Junglies used to get back from their Norway deployment. Couldn't miss us, we were the ones wearing white long-johns & vests; Mukluks and Hucklyberry Hound hats; usually drinking copious amounts of Spingo. Mike Oooh Spingo 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsty Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 Oh dear. The launch has fallen prey to the dreaded anomaly. Better luck next time ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsty Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 And now the company's filing for bankruptcy. All those kids from all the local schools, getting all enthused about it, and now ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter2 Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Being at the frontier of space innovation can be difficult. But as Dublinman Samuel Beckett once wrote: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” 🧐 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter2 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Or to quote Oswald Cabal at the end of the 1936 science fiction film 'Things To Come' [acknowledgement to IMDb] : 'But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and its winds and ways. And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him... and at last, out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of Space, and all the mysteries of Time, still he will be beginning.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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