"The Butt, Penetration, and Swinging" by scholagladiatoria about the usage of long rifles with bayonets in close combat was probably the best one on UA-cam until now.
@@ImieNazwiskoOK Usually going all the way around the planet at least once is a good start for saying you orbited. And for the other, er, all the way in to your partner is probably the best way to describe it :D
The title suggests that Scott Manley is really just Johnny Sins on one of his many jobs, probably just waiting for some step-engineer to get stuck in a differential equation
I flew London to New York on Cosmic Girl. The entire crew (including pilot) were female. I wonder if it's the same pilot flying her now. Quite the promotion if it is.
I'm especially excited because my university, Utah State, has a burgeoning program here for sattelites and space. My cousin went here, worked at ATK, then worked at SpaceX, and is now at Blue Origin.
@@Piromanofeliz Last I checked Poland was on the list of participants in ESA (European Space Agency), I don't know what they do space related in their country. But either independently or maybe as a cooperative effort some project that makes it out of orbit to do things isn't an odd thing. Even Switzerland is on the list, despite not being a formal EU member but "only" having a heap of treaties and being part of the Schengen agreement.
She's just a cosmic girl From another galaxy My heart's at zero gravity She's from a cosmic world Putting me in ecstasy Transmitting on my frequency She's cosmic
Been waiting for this one for years. A friend of mine just left VO to go to work at another startup but he was at VO since the very early days; 5 years if memory serves. Very small teams at VO working really really hard. They deserved this one for sure!
Shout out from Cornwall here! :) - Always loved the idea of air launches, and seeing them launch from NQY would be incredible, and a huge boost for our industries. I like how Virgin have quietly ploughed on with this, with relatively little fuss or grandstanding, and have done something genuinely impressive and unique. Well done to the team, and fingers crossed that their first payloads have equal success, and they can build from there. Well done, Virgins!
It isnt cheaper and probably wont ever be cheaper. Second vehicle, additional maintenance and crew plus the savings of probably way less than 1000m/s to orbit, when you still need 8000 more cant ever be cheaper than the same vehicle extended by fuel to fly itself to 12km altitude and 300m/s forward motion. Its advantage is the flexibility of launch place and azimuth. You cant ever go over populated land (wink wink china) until really late into launch trajectory so you often cannot access huge junks of possible and sought after inclinations. Thats where this rocket comes in. And that demand especially for small sats comes from a wide variety of customers with different needs in inclination, some may be landlocked smaller countries and cant launch themselves, etc...
USAF was running tests of ICBM launch from cargo planes. What they did is they dropped an ICBM out of the back of a cargo hold plane, engines down, on a parachute. Then after falling a few seconds, they fired the engines. The advantage of that solution was that the rocket was already pointing in the right direction.
So glad you mentioned Orbital Sciences and Pegasus. After all, they were the first private launch vehicle - and the first to launch an orbital payload from a modified airliner. It bears mentioning that Orbital Sciences (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) developed their Pegasus in the late '80s and early '90s, thirty years ago now.
2:57 - Strictly speaking, would they actually _have_ to top up the tanks in flight? It wouldn't be too hard to put a refrigeration plant in the 747 _(it's_ not going to orbit, after all) to keep the propellants cold and avoid the need to periodically replace boiled-off propellant.
Legally speaking, it was a missile under US law, so yeah... During the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo era, the astronauts were officially classed as munitions which amuses Buzz no end
Something exciting happens, but you can't find much out about it. Wait a day or so... and up pops Scott! Brilliant. Thanks Scott. I will admit I never thought VO would make it, but I was completely wrong, so congratulations to them. Nearly 50 years for the second (sort-of) British rocket to reach orbit!
Hadn't thought of that - it sounds very plausible, and for those that don't know, vortex shedding is what makes symmetrical cross section skyscrapers shake in high winds. That's why many of the tallest are asymmetrical.
@@poruatokin appreciate the clarification very much. But I'm not seeing a connection between vortex shedding and a body's symmetry. Lots is written about the shedding pattern itself being symmetric or asymmetric, but nothing about the body's symmetry being a meaningful factor. Can you point to a reference or discussion about building symmetry and vortex shedding?
@@BobStein Sure, just type "skyscraper vortex shedding" in UA-cam.... ua-cam.com/video/ebx5Y5qOmTM/v-deo.html This one also touches on it ua-cam.com/video/MhwzZAXlfFs/v-deo.html
Cosmic Girl is indeed a beauty. the 747 plant has nine planes left to build (all 747-8Fs for UPS) and after that she'll be a part of a dying breed. i'm lucky enough to work with 747s on a daily basis at UPS and they are elegance and grace and power embodied. proud of this girl for helping us reach the stars.
Yay for Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne! A well earned success. And thank you Scott Manley for this very educational video telling us what's going on. An epic power slide through the atmosphere, before blasting up through the stratosphere and into space sounds pretty darn cool.
My alma mater is one of the schools that had a satellite on this rocket. I've been getting nonstop emails preparing for it and I think one saying it was successful. Lots of space-related stuff from Cal Poly recently. I only graduated in 2019 so there's a good chance I've met quite a few of the people who worked on the satellite. Really cool to see Virgin do this. I hope they can keep improving to make it even better.
I have to say I'd be tempted to re-use an actual Shakespeare title: Much Ado About an O-thing (Later mangled by prudes who don't value female pleasure to the more familiar title.)
6:30 yeah as a CFD guy, high AoA cylindrical bodies give me the heeby-jeebies: the separation point of the wake tends to oscillate with vortex shedding and then if you’re in the transonic regime you have the complexity of a potentially unsteady lambda shock on the cylinder as well. I hope they looked into strakes/fences/VGs to help control and steady the wake separation point.
Good to see the beautiful 747 has another purpose in life. We may of resigned her to no longer carry us, sadly, but she lives on with such an awesome task.
Ariane and Vega development is government contracted but the Soyuz launches from Kourou are a purely private commercial arrangement (with some funding from the EU rather than ESA as part of efforts to stop Russian rocket scientists ending up in places like Iran and North Korea).
Space doesn’t exist. Earth is flat, motionless,and covered by a dome. Google “Hebrew cosmology” or “biblical cosmology”. Ask yourself, why have you never heard of the word firmament?
I worked on a similar concept years ago and while it never got too far. One thing we realized was that by using a temporary launch vehicle with traditional aircraft control surfaces. It's capable of saving a ton of fuel in the transition from horizontal to vertical flight. Once clear of the launch vehicle it would be jetosoned
Your explanations are so well crafted, with the perfect blend of technical detail and a side serving of wit and banter. It SEEMS spontaneous, which is what makes it so enjoyable to listen to. So...is everything scripted, including the witty remarks, or what? Teleprompter? Notes? You’re awesome!
They actually made it all the way to the 300-mile high club. (Yes, higher than the Kármán line, because they didn't go for a minimally-in-orbit altitude, they went for a fairly respectable 500 km orbit.)
8:19 Something flies off, hope its not important? Q1: How much fuel is saved in this type of launch? Q2: Will they retrieve & reuse the main engines stage?
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that Virgin is paying a pilot to get to fly a 747 at fighter level G forces..... #shouldhavedonebetterinschool
What a title. Scott had some fun with that one.
For a minute I thought google had auto-filled the wrong four letter word after I started typing “Y-o-u”....
Beat me to it 😂 I’m sure he did
Sounds like the virgin did too. 😋
Ignoring opportunities to have fun with Bransons company name is simply not ok.
Had me checking if I was on the wrong site still😅
You still missed an opportunity:
"Virgin Reaches Orbit With The Help of Cosmic Girl, Releases Multiple Payloads"
"Too uncomfortable to film"
@@nomekop777 pffffft😂😂😂
Pffffft, that is horrible
Well, got to admit it. That title was kind of hard to ignore.
he did it right lol
You might say it was a Manly description of a Virgin Reaches Orbit With The Help of Cosmic Girl.
Kinda brings back memories of early failures.
A virgin in space ? Good, Cause there's none left down here !
@@garethhanby Blowing it all on the first stage and never reaching the second, I don't need reminding of that.
Fly safe has a different meaning now, after that title.
Use heat shields please
@@alpereninan9500 HA lmaooooo, I love that response 😂😹😂
*sees title
He definitely knew
They knew!
a huuuundred percent
Can some one explain it to me?
@@luma8212
It sounds like a porn title : "Virgin *REACHES ORBIT* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) With The Help of Cosmic Girl
"
@@nicholasleclerc1583 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay
Hey that’s my CubeSat seen on the right inside the fairing!!! Congrats to VO it was an amazing launch to watch.
Whoa! Wow!
Nice! What kind of mission was it on?
I'm used to see sexual innuendo in my feed, but they usually don't lead to a space rocket video.
you see this rocket is quite long and has a lot of thrust control
"The Butt, Penetration, and Swinging" by scholagladiatoria about the usage of long rifles with bayonets in close combat was probably the best one on UA-cam until now.
It has extra vertical gimbaling so it can rise further with an optimal angle of attack.
Really? Giant flying dicks aren't innuendo enough for you? You completely manipulated living meme brainlet trash oml :')
@Vladimir Putin I mean if anyone would know this, it would be Vladimir Putin.
Now, who else is going to make it to orbit before Blue Origin does? No rush, chaps.
Vulcan, starship, Ariane 6 and maybe SLS (maybe not)
SLS launches for real, or BO gets into orbit...
@@matthsini ULA's Vulcan first stage will use Blue Origin's BE-4 engines, though, technically that part of the rocket will not reach orbit.
It won't be SLS.
I think a neighbor kid here in the Midwest is working with some Estes Rocket stages that might beat them to the punch. Just a guess on my part.
*_"...lost their orbital virginity..."_* LMAO! Nice one!
So we can now call Bo "virgins"?
"Orbit capable" doesn't count. That's like saying you lost your virginity to a pr0n magazine...
@@anonydun82fgoog35 So what counts?
@@ImieNazwiskoOK Usually going all the way around the planet at least once is a good start for saying you orbited. And for the other, er, all the way in to your partner is probably the best way to describe it :D
@@anonydun82fgoog35 They did it. They launched them into orbit.
"powerslide through the atmosphere" is the coolest thing I've heard today
Just needs Clarkson on board shouting "Poweeerrrrr!" :-)
DEJA VU
The virgin SLS vs the chad Virgin.
*Laughs in N1*
Laughs in Challenger
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 shush
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 uncontrollable fuel leaks are the spice of life
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 i mean on the second launch maybe a few tiny specks of metal could've reached space briefly so hey it worked
The title suggests that Scott Manley is really just Johnny Sins on one of his many jobs, probably just waiting for some step-engineer to get stuck in a differential equation
When "Cosmic Girl" was stationed at Long Beach Airport i have a picture of her in the background while i was solo hovering.
I flew London to New York on Cosmic Girl. The entire crew (including pilot) were female. I wonder if it's the same pilot flying her now. Quite the promotion if it is.
Appropriate flex indeed
Will CG be able to get authorization to fly from standard airports with such an unusual cargo?
I flew London to San Francisco on Cosmic Girl Oct 2012
Shouldn't your hands have been on the controls at all times? :)))
Richard Branson has been trying to do this for 30 years!! Respect his perseverance.
Hear! Hear!
*_Virgin Reaches Orbit With The Help of Cosmic Girl_*
So how can i get in touch with this "Cosmic Girl"????? Asking for a friend of course....
Last time I saw her was a Saturday in 1999
Am I your friend?
Yes u can refer to an avengers movie. Assuming you have pimp particles you are pretty much in destination fucked!
Its a song by jamiroquai
I don't recall either Cosmic Girl or Virgin Orbit being willing to share.
The oscillation looks like asymmetric vortex shedding. Pretty common with long tubes at high AoA.
R34 artists are going to have a great time with that title
Hello There
I’ll be expecting it by the end of the day, given their track record
oh my.... **gwabs KV2**
aight where are they?
@@britishneko3906 I hope that gwabs was a typo. No Gulag for you, YET
@@erzhaider it is a typo... don't worry I won't fix it because lazy...
"Cosmic girl helps Virgin reach orbit" ... I want the sauce
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... and release multiple payloads!
The sauce? The Virgin was literally shooting hot white blasts after Cosmic Girl gave it a release.
@@TeeBar420 no no the memories of the torture
I've been on youtube over a decade. In all that time, this title takes the goddamn cake.
Agreed !! Comment field is the most amazing ever !!!
@Mr. Virtual nice I'm an internet boomer too
What counts as old?
@Mr. Virtual That moment, when you joined in 2006.
Cosmic girl helps Virgin launch his payload into space. Fixed that for you.
So much better ...
"Cosmic Girl gives Virgin a Happy Ending"
Remove the "his", otherwise it's not ambiguous.
@@leandrog2785 I didn't intend for it to be ambiguous lol.
Imagine how exciting this must be for the students who worked on those nano satellites. Amazing that space is so much more accessible.
I'm especially excited because my university, Utah State, has a burgeoning program here for sattelites and space. My cousin went here, worked at ATK, then worked at SpaceX, and is now at Blue Origin.
@@WasatchWind I'm also excited because mu country (Poland) has plan to launch satellite to Mars
@@ImieNazwiskoOK Polland can into space now?
@@Piromanofeliz We sent some already. And does Apollo lander also counts? And why No one remembers Mirosław Hermaszewki? It's just sad.
@@Piromanofeliz Last I checked Poland was on the list of participants in ESA (European Space Agency), I don't know what they do space related in their country. But either independently or maybe as a cooperative effort some project that makes it out of orbit to do things isn't an odd thing. Even Switzerland is on the list, despite not being a formal EU member but "only" having a heap of treaties and being part of the Schengen agreement.
Bramson waited years to make that innuendo a reality.
"Orbital Virginity" LMAO I'M DEAD 💀
It’s only January and we already have title of the year
2:27 "first flew in September 2001"
Oh no
"I think I actually flew in one at one point"
I mean, it’s better than “last flew in September 2001”...
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic
haha, that was my first thought!
It shall now be called "Chad Orbit"
I demand they rebrand to this!
Good one hahaha
Imagine having a company that makes a spin off company that has more success than the original company
After 25 years of farting around...
I just saw this pop in my notifications and was so confused and until you started to explain.
I'm such a rocket nerd I didn't even realize the joke in the title.
Me too. I am as green as I am cabbage looking.
I didn't get it either :D
I suppose my ignorance reveals that I am yet to find a cosmic girl - though I think I'd personally prefer a Starwoman
Neither did I!
same
With all the 747s being retired, I'm glad to see one with a good job lined up. Here's to many more flights, Cosmic Girl.
Been waiting for this one for years. A friend of mine just left VO to go to work at another startup but he was at VO since the very early days; 5 years if memory serves. Very small teams at VO working really really hard. They deserved this one for sure!
8:00 I feel like he is talking about SLS without talking about SLS
When even fucking virgin galactic beats you to the punch you know something is terribly terribly wrong
@@carso1500
Well said.
Shout out from Cornwall here! :) - Always loved the idea of air launches, and seeing them launch from NQY would be incredible, and a huge boost for our industries. I like how Virgin have quietly ploughed on with this, with relatively little fuss or grandstanding, and have done something genuinely impressive and unique. Well done to the team, and fingers crossed that their first payloads have equal success, and they can build from there. Well done, Virgins!
6:27 - "Quick, right-click on those turbopump exhausts and drag the control-authority slider a bit to the left."
Thank you sooo much Scott. From the title to how you corrected the timelines of the two video feeds. You did a huuuuge service by making this video!
Launcher One: *Whispers softly into Cosmic Girl's ear* "Voulez vous l'espace avec moi ce soir?"
Aller*
@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 I know it isn't a grammatically correct translation. It's meant to be a gag not a French lesson lmao
I raise you this, "omelette du fromage"
@@Andrew-Kerr translate?
Vous etez Bien. Je suis excité.
^ Mistakes I learnt the hard way in French class
Thank you Scott. I have not been able to even find a half-decent video on this. Thanks for coming through, once again.
For years i wonder when we will see something like this. Congrats, probably the cheapest why on the long run to put small satellites in orbit.
It isnt cheaper and probably wont ever be cheaper. Second vehicle, additional maintenance and crew plus the savings of probably way less than 1000m/s to orbit, when you still need 8000 more cant ever be cheaper than the same vehicle extended by fuel to fly itself to 12km altitude and 300m/s forward motion. Its advantage is the flexibility of launch place and azimuth. You cant ever go over populated land (wink wink china) until really late into launch trajectory so you often cannot access huge junks of possible and sought after inclinations. Thats where this rocket comes in. And that demand especially for small sats comes from a wide variety of customers with different needs in inclination, some may be landlocked smaller countries and cant launch themselves, etc...
Starship will be cheaper when accounting for ground, maintenance, crew ect
Rocket Lab is already cheaper than Virgin Orbit, and they're exploring reusability to lower costs even further.
USAF was running tests of ICBM launch from cargo planes. What they did is they dropped an ICBM out of the back of a cargo hold plane, engines down, on a parachute. Then after falling a few seconds, they fired the engines. The advantage of that solution was that the rocket was already pointing in the right direction.
Virgin Orbit: Does not want to stream
Staff: Leaks internal stream
Virgin Orbit: Am I a JoKe To YoU??
So glad you mentioned Orbital Sciences and Pegasus. After all, they were the first private launch vehicle - and the first to launch an orbital payload from a modified airliner. It bears mentioning that Orbital Sciences (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) developed their Pegasus in the late '80s and early '90s, thirty years ago now.
2:57 - Strictly speaking, would they actually _have_ to top up the tanks in flight? It wouldn't be too hard to put a refrigeration plant in the 747 _(it's_ not going to orbit, after all) to keep the propellants cold and avoid the need to periodically replace boiled-off propellant.
He knew the title before he hit record. You hear that cheaky "hello its Scott Manley"
So 747s fire missiles ? ^^
Yes
"peacefully"
when "fire" = "drop" yes...
Legally speaking, it was a missile under US law, so yeah...
During the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo era, the astronauts were officially classed as munitions which amuses Buzz no end
Something exciting happens, but you can't find much out about it. Wait a day or so... and up pops Scott! Brilliant. Thanks Scott. I will admit I never thought VO would make it, but I was completely wrong, so congratulations to them. Nearly 50 years for the second (sort-of) British rocket to reach orbit!
Yes, that would be the “fifth pod” hard point.
Could that roll instability be vortex shedding due to angle of attack on a cylindrical body?
Only if the metric muffler bearings are torqued to 20 N-m
Could a what be what due to what of what on a what what?
Hadn't thought of that - it sounds very plausible, and for those that don't know, vortex shedding is what makes symmetrical cross section skyscrapers shake in high winds. That's why many of the tallest are asymmetrical.
@@poruatokin appreciate the clarification very much. But I'm not seeing a connection between vortex shedding and a body's symmetry. Lots is written about the shedding pattern itself being symmetric or asymmetric, but nothing about the body's symmetry being a meaningful factor. Can you point to a reference or discussion about building symmetry and vortex shedding?
@@BobStein Sure, just type "skyscraper vortex shedding" in UA-cam....
ua-cam.com/video/ebx5Y5qOmTM/v-deo.html
This one also touches on it ua-cam.com/video/MhwzZAXlfFs/v-deo.html
I knew a girl in the 60s nicknamed Cosmic Girl. She was real spacey. But fun!!!
Use to manoeuvre aircraft at Heathrow,I've pushed,towed and been onboard Cosmic Girl many times! Great to see she's still doing her thing!!
Many interesting hypersonic and fractional orbital weapon systems could come from this.
Cosmic Girl is indeed a beauty. the 747 plant has nine planes left to build (all 747-8Fs for UPS) and after that she'll be a part of a dying breed. i'm lucky enough to work with 747s on a daily basis at UPS and they are elegance and grace and power embodied. proud of this girl for helping us reach the stars.
"I must've died and gone to heaven
Cos it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999"
I think it will be in my head every lunch .....
Yay for Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne! A well earned success. And thank you Scott Manley for this very educational video telling us what's going on.
An epic power slide through the atmosphere, before blasting up through the stratosphere and into space sounds pretty darn cool.
So... More successful than the jumping Dillio... 😂
Congrats to Virgin Orbit!
LOL
My alma mater is one of the schools that had a satellite on this rocket. I've been getting nonstop emails preparing for it and I think one saying it was successful. Lots of space-related stuff from Cal Poly recently. I only graduated in 2019 so there's a good chance I've met quite a few of the people who worked on the satellite. Really cool to see Virgin do this. I hope they can keep improving to make it even better.
Title’s not bad, but I would have gone with “Big Rocket Busts Virgin O’Ring.”
I have to say I'd be tempted to re-use an actual Shakespeare title:
Much Ado About an O-thing
(Later mangled by prudes who don't value female pleasure to the more familiar title.)
Lol 😆 🤣 😂. O ring compromised by too much thrust , no no no awwww yh yh yh 🤣 😂 😆
6:30 yeah as a CFD guy, high AoA cylindrical bodies give me the heeby-jeebies: the separation point of the wake tends to oscillate with vortex shedding and then if you’re in the transonic regime you have the complexity of a potentially unsteady lambda shock on the cylinder as well. I hope they looked into strakes/fences/VGs to help control and steady the wake separation point.
Hey Scott, any chance of doing a
Video on the rules of dropping used rocket stages?
Good to see the beautiful 747 has another purpose in life. We may of resigned her to no longer carry us, sadly, but she lives on with such an awesome task.
To hold a long object until it shootsh out white stuff from the tip
So, the "Cosmic Girl" took a ride on the Virgin?, I hope it was satisfactory for both. The images that conjures,...
What a time to be alive! Witnessing this and all of the other awesome space tech happening is a blessing!
10 dislikes? Looks like the Flerfs are out in force!
Good job Lads and Lasses and I am remembering when I met a girl with experience and I was... never-mind, it was short but Cosmic.
Isn't ariane group technically a private company (capable of orbital launches) although they get most of their funding from the esa.
Ariane and Vega development is government contracted but the Soyuz launches from Kourou are a purely private commercial arrangement (with some funding from the EU rather than ESA as part of efforts to stop Russian rocket scientists ending up in places like Iran and North Korea).
Well played Scott. Title is awesome! Certainly grabs the eye.
15 seconds in and we've already gone for gold
Scott definitely had fun with the title of this one. It's the cherry on top of a great video!
Lmao the acronym for
Educational
Launch
Of
Nanosatellites
Should be ELON
Would it get more lift and perform better if it had some small wings? Or does that just add unnecessary complications?
I’m glad space has more competition
But still no big competition in big reusable Rockets
Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn coming soon
Space doesn’t exist. Earth is flat, motionless,and covered by a dome. Google “Hebrew cosmology” or “biblical cosmology”. Ask yourself, why have you never heard of the word firmament?
In this pace Virgin shall reach Uranus in no time!
Virgin galactic just lost their orbital virginity I guess!
Edit: frick Scott made the same joke...
not virgin galactic, this was virgin orbital
@@adamrezabek9469 Same parent company (I think)
@@yanislahtal6253 yes
Thank Scott. I always feel like I’m getting good information when I watch your channel. I was wondering about virgins progress.
SpaceX: "Lol! Cute."
SO COOL ! Despite all the shyt that's going on in the world , it's a pretty exciting time to be alive ! Thanks Scott !
There's so many jokes with this title... Junior high was so much fun.
CONGRATS , we have launched our first ( BIG ASS Missile) B-A-M from a 747! we can now use 747s to FLY ICBMs!
Reads title*
Freaks out thinking there some space juju going on... 👀😂
I worked on a similar concept years ago and while it never got too far. One thing we realized was that by using a temporary launch vehicle with traditional aircraft control surfaces. It's capable of saving a ton of fuel in the transition from horizontal to vertical flight. Once clear of the launch vehicle it would be jetosoned
Everyone is talking about the title.
Me: actually enjoyed the video
I am welcome to heaven
Your explanations are so well crafted, with the perfect blend of technical detail and a side serving of wit and banter. It SEEMS spontaneous, which is what makes it so enjoyable to listen to.
So...is everything scripted, including the witty remarks, or what? Teleprompter? Notes? You’re awesome!
Bullet points for things I want to cover, but no script, just making the wording up as I go along.
6:14 GOD PID ing for the programer
The high AOA was the first thing I noticed in the video - thank you for explaining it!
8:10 does someone has the link for the image on the background, i would love to have it but i can't find it
I never knew there was a hard point on the 747. Ullage rockets!!
Oh yeah... Air India and Qantas used it often to ferry spare engines for a crippled bird
Congrats to Virgin on joining the 50-mile high club.
@Pronto Depends on whether you use Metric or American definition. I went with American for a round number of miles.
@@nebufabu nah dude, 50 miles is 80 km, that wasn't what he was correcting
But I have no ideia 62 what he is talking about xD
Virgin Orbit just made the "Hundred Klick Klub". Virgin Galactic already made that club with SpaceShipTwo.
@@MyChannel-bh6sc should've seen that one...
Completely scaped my attention
They actually made it all the way to the 300-mile high club. (Yes, higher than the Kármán line, because they didn't go for a minimally-in-orbit altitude, they went for a fairly respectable 500 km orbit.)
Totally NOT a slapstick romantic comedy film.
Great title! Love this channel! 😂❤️
must be nice being rich to make projects like these a reality
Best title of the 2021. Already calling it!
Congrats to Virgin!
Using Pegasus tech...
We don't need more "Disney" rides but real orbit capable spacecrafts.
Only thing similiar to Pegasus is lunch from airplane
Virgin is now the...'experienced' launcher...
0:11 made me laugh a little too much
8:19 Something flies off, hope its not important?
Q1: How much fuel is saved in this type of launch?
Q2: Will they retrieve & reuse the main engines stage?
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that Virgin is paying a pilot to get to fly a 747 at fighter level G forces..... #shouldhavedonebetterinschool
Im gonna be honest, that was badass
That title tho...
That rocket launch and the 747 braking away showing its silhouette in all its glory was an iconic moment.
The title sounds like the description of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hentai.
I'm curious to how you know this.
@@ekscalybur the silence speaks volumes...
@@ekscalybur I thought everyone did
I'm actually quite glad they made it - they have a good USP with the launch flexibility and any competition in space services is much welcome!