Rutan spaceplane

Cool stuff here - Burt Rutan (of Voyager & other interesting aircraft)
has
rolled out a complete spaceplane system which might win the X-Prize by
the
end of the year...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/902224.asp?0sl=-44

.. but my first thought at seeing the pics of the two-part vehicle was,
"Dog, if Jon produced a model that funny-looking, nobody'd buy it and
we'd
all have said how 'unrealistic' it looked!"

Real life is stranger than fiction...

Brian.