Climbing to 17, 000 feet was bumpy, and I turned the controls over to Terry Tomeny, a former F-16 jock and now chief of flight-test engineering for Eclipse.
It was always going to be a test flight - the first of two that have been planned to bring the shuttle programme back on track.
SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.
The inventors estimate a test-flight could take place in less than a year and a half with final certification by 2010.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
Like Amazon, the company is secretive, but last September it revealed that it had lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a short-hop test flight.
With production estimated to take at least two weeks to get back to normal, the test-flight programme of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner will have to be pushed back (again).
Thursday's flawed flight was the first time an Ariane rocket had malfunctioned since Ariane-5's maiden test flight exploded 37 seconds after launch in 1996.
Following a three-hour GTL test flight to Airbus' HQ in Toulouse in February, Robert Nutall, fuel specialist at Rolls Royce suggested alternative jetfuels were no longer a flight of fancy.
Bruce, 48, has strengthened his squad this summer and believes his side are now better equipped for the physical test of top-flight football.
Speaking of sun-powered planes, the Solar Impulse just made its final test flight around the San Francisco Bay Area before embarking on a cross-country voyage next week.
Johnson and Pulis are united by a burning ambition to test themselves in the top flight - and whether or not they would survive once there is a question for another day.
Today's flight was the first of more than 600 flight hours in the test program for the new 747-8 Intercontinental.
But Mr Aldrin disagreed with the view that astronauts should test capabilities for a long-duration flight on the Moon before attempting a journey to Mars.
In other defence news, an editorial in bilingual Global Times hails China's successful test flight of its first heavy transport aircraft Y-20 as an "important step forward" in military modernisation.
The 747-8 Intercontinental's first flight marks the beginning of a flight test program that will finish in the fourth quarter.
The German airline, Lufthansa, received its award for being the first carrier to test biofuel in normal flight operations and greening everything from its engine-cleaning routine to cabin equipment, resulting in a full 23 percent emissions reduction.
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At least some of the incoming Republican panel chairmen and other senior GOP lawmakers, these officials said, may view the proposed test flight as circumventing congressional language to quickly develop a new heavy-lift NASA rocket able to transport astronauts past low-earth orbit.
After returning and graduating from Purdue, Neil applied to become a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base.
Picocell systems have been tested on several flights, including a flight over the Pacific last August, and a test over Geneva to demonstrate that ground-based networks were not affected.
The B-52 took to the skies Tuesday, but no other information about the test flight was available, John Haire, a spokesman for Edwards Air Force Base in California, said in an email.
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Armstrong spent seven years at NACA's high-speed flight station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, becoming one of the world's best test pilots.
During a second flight test in January, the Raytheon kill vehicle missed the target by 100 feet because two "end-game" sensors both experienced mechanical failures.
It should be noted also that the 2017 maiden test flight will use a "lite" variant, one capable of lifting about 70 tonnes to low-Earth orbit.
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