Will Whitehorn

...the paying public within five years and Lossiemouth's RAF base is their first UK choice as a spaceport. Virgin Galactic's president Will Whitehorn this weekend warned Britain "has no legislation to allow us to fly here - there is no...

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...X Prize for technological development. It was a two-part craft, both parts reusable, and it was top secret. Whitehorn persuaded Rutan to show it to him. Then he went outside and phoned Branson. "I said, 'Forget about the composite plane.

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...held in Glasgow last week. More than 300 GlobalScots came together to discuss how to give Scottish business a leg-up. Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic (it doesn't get much more ambitious than space travel, does it?),...

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...can be considered as a launch site for commercial space flights, the head of Virgin Galactic has said. The firm's president Will Whitehorn said locations in Scotland and Sweden were being considered as bases for Virgin's European...

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...companies across the globe and promote our country as a great place to do business." A keynote speech will be delivered by Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic. A panel session involving Sir Tom Hunter, chairman of West Coast...

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...at SSTL, including its Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Behind the decision to press ahead, says Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn, are encouraging results from the flight tests of WhiteKnightTwo, the four-engined aircraft that...

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After reaching the top of its trajectory, it will fall back into the atmosphere and glide to a landing. Virgin Galactic President Will Whitehorn said testing of WhiteKnightTwo is in full swing, with flights above 52,000 feet. The...

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