Canadian X-Prize Entry Gearing Up

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 6, 2004 @09:48AM from the hold-your-breath,-eh dept.

lommer writes "The Globe and Mail has a piece up about the Canadian Da Vinci team which is making a bid for the X-prize. The team has finalized a launch location (Kindersley, Saskatchewan) and will announce a launch date this month. Meanwhile, Burt Rutan and Co. over at Scaled Composites appear to be back on track with a succesful test flight on March 11 after their December crash. One has to wonder, with launch dates being set, will some projects step up and attempt a flight without being fully ready for it?"

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Crashes by The_Mystic_For_Real · 2004-04-06 10:10 · Score: 1, Offtopic

From the article:Wildfire's total budget is $5-illion, while the Rutan, its main competitor from California, has a $25-million wallet filled by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. "It's the Canadian team with no money against the American team with unlimited resources," said Ms. Wildman. "But they just did some test flights and had a failed landing and our testing has gone perfectly. We feel like we have the edge."" The thing funded by Bill Gates crashes. What else is new?

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