predecessor to WhiteKnightOne Scaled Composites Stratolaunch Roc, derivative of WhiteKnightTwo SpaceShipTwo, payload for WhiteKnightTwo WhiteKnightOne, predecessor...
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A white knight is a mythological figure and literary stock character. They are portrayed alongside a black knight as diametric opposites. A white knight...
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VSS Enterprise crash (redirect from WhiteKnightTwo-SpaceShipTwo powered flight 4)
flight – powered flight 4 (PF04) – in which it was dropped from the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, after taking off from the Mojave Air and...
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The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight (now also called White Knight One) is a jet-powered carrier aircraft that was used to launch its companion...
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The Two Knights Defense (also called the Prussian Defense) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 First recorded...
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customer for the SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo vehicles. Virgin placed an initial order for five SpaceShipTwos and two WhiteKnightTwos, with "exclusive use...
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White Knight Chronicles is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the...
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Look up white knight in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A white knight is a fictional stock character representing a gallant knight. White Knight may also...
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The two knights endgame is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king. In contrast to a king and two bishops (on opposite-colored squares)...
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Virgin Galactic (section White Knight Two)
SpaceShipTwos and two WhiteKnightTwos. Scaled Composites was contracted to develop and build the initial prototypes of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, and...
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Batman: White Knight is an American comic book published by DC Comics. The eight-issue limited series, written and illustrated by Sean Murphy, began monthly...
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VMS Eve (category Scaled Composites White Knight Two)
Fatigue 'is not an issue' for WhiteKnightTwo", Flightglobal National Geographic, Virgin Galactic Unveils WhiteKnightTwo Space Plane, July 28, 2008, Ker...
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The Knights of the White Camelia was an American white supremacist organization that operated in the Southern United States in the late 19th century. Similar...
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configuration, and it landed safely after a 7-minute flight. SpaceShipTwo (and the WhiteKnightTwo launcher aircraft) were built by The Spaceship Company, originally...
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Two Arabian Knights (1927) is an American silent comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd, Mary Astor, and Louis Wolheim. The...
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Batman: Curse of the White Knight is an American comic book published by DC Comics under its Black Label imprint. The eight-issue limited series, written...
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chosen to power the Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the launch aircraft for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. Unscheduled interventions went from 85%...
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In business, a white knight is a friendly investor that acquires a corporation at a fair consideration with support from the corporation's board of directors...
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The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization which is active in the United States. It originated in Mississippi and Louisiana...
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Batman: Beyond the White Knight is an American comic book published by DC Comics under its Black Label imprint. The eight-issue limited series — written...
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31, 2014, the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft VSS Enterprise broke up during a test flight after being dropped from the WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve carrier aircraft...
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VSS Enterprise (category SpaceShipTwo)
The flight began smoothly, with Enterprise being dropped from its WhiteKnightTwo carrier and igniting its engine at an altitude of 50,000 feet (15,000 m)...
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White Knight Chronicles II is a video game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan and Europe and by D3 Publisher in...
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first WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve, as chief test pilot. On October 31, 2014, Siebold was one of the two pilots flying the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, VSS...
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White Knight Chronicles: Origins is a role-playing video game developed by Japan Studio, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the...
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combination. It is also used for the upcoming Tier 1b SpaceShipTwo/WhiteKnightTwo combination. A prominent example of its use was the North American...
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The White Knight is one of three Anglo-Norman hereditary knighthoods within Ireland dating from the medieval period. The title was first conferred upon...
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from the smaller airplane WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) launch platform, used for the suborbital Tier 1b system of WK2 and SpaceShipTwo (SS2). As the size of LauncherOne...
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Moon Knight is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin, the character...
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Christendom and grew rapidly in membership and power. The Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting...
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