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Old 04-27-2007, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by FNG1 View Post
Ok time to dream a little bit. The people of Virgin Atlantic are working in a fleet of spaceships one from Burt Rutan, they want to stablish a commercial flight schedule.

I personally think that an airline pilot with some physics background might be enough (maybe physics minor). Here in ERAU we have an space physics major, so maybe someone with an aeronautical science + physics.

Now what you guys think should be the background of those astronaut pilots?...........engineers, military, airlines.......a combination?.......
VA has already announced that they'll be line pilots from Virgin Atlantic. Any of VA's 700 current line pilots are allowed to apply and the appointment requires 27 months of additional training.
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