Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Virgin Galactic +Ferrari

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

I'll be splitting hairs here but I consider it to be a commercial flight. People paid money to go flying. The company flying the craft purely exists to fly people to the edge of space and back. I can fly in a "commercial" airliner (American/Delta/Air Canada/etc) to go from one end of the country to the other simply to visit my sister. I didn't bring her anything, just myself (usually the case). The commerce is the act of any one of those companies bringing me there and back home. Same thing here.

Maybe bringing payloads like supplies and science experiments would be considered commercial transport?... Musk is just being a good businessman - maximizing the use of his space craft. More launches = more experience = more future space flight business.

Yeah, it's cool. I am intrigued with space flight and if I was wealthy enough, I would consider it. Sure, one could take one of those "vomit-comet" flights and experience a similar "anti-gravity" sensation but it's short lived and really not the same thing. I'm always fascinated with the stories of any astronaut, because they always say the experience is life-changing. Wow...

And I had no idea that Jon Goodwin was a serious vintage Ferrari owner. Thanks Britt for that bit of trivia!

Peter

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Sent: August 10, 2023 12:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Virgin Galactic +Ferrari

 

Yeah, they took a safer bet than a sub to the Titanic.

I'm really happy that people like Jon get to live their dreams in this way.   I still have issues calling this a commercial flight.  They made money on the passengers but really didn't take any business to space.  What Musk is doing is commercial.  Launching his own and other business payloads, taking people to the ISS, taking NASA payloads to space.   

Branson and Bezos are running a amusement park ride to space and back.  Fortunately, they are having better luck than Stockton Rush.

But, I did want to watch it, so it has some interest...  it's flying, and for part of my life, flying was everything.

Rick

On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 11:37:05 AM PDT, Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

My hero 

Clyde Romero

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You have no character ! 

Scars are tattoos with better stories!

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On Aug 10, 2023, at 12:07 PM, BRITT ROTHMAN via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:

Here a little fun fact for you guys.
Virgin Galactic just launched today with the first fee paying passengers. One of those passengers is an 80 year old, former Olympian, from the UK. ( Jon Goodwin).
Now I lived in the UK for 22 years and Jon was/is an active member of the Ferrari Owners Club West Midlands chapter along with his wife. I was area group organiser for the FOC for almost 10 years in the West Midlands. Jon owns a 275 GTC and a Lusso amount other Ferraris. Jon has been waiting since 2005 to take a ride on Virgin Galactic, today he had his chance after almost 19 years. He has Parkinson’s but still wanted to go.  Below is a picture of John in his Lusso on a cold wet November night last year when the weather was horrible but he came out to the area group meeting ( I was attending the Classic and Sports Car show in Birmingham that weekend so I was in the UK visiting my old area group.
So there you go, a true Ferrari guy who drives in all weathers and now has made it to suborbital  space at the age of 80.

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