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A photo of the airplane, one of the Galactic Girl, one with tail number, and one with the name .. would be good. 70.51.10.151 ( talk) 10:32, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Is this article really necessary? Could not the same info be covered in a section on the WhiteKnightTwo page? Is this single aircraft notable enough on its own for its own page, or ever likely to be? More importantly, there are supposed to be only two WhiteKnightTwos built - could not both be covered sufficiently on the main page? - BillCJ ( talk) 23:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
OK, the WK2 article only said 2 were expected, at ileast that's what I think I read in a cursory search. - BillCJ ( talk) 23:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Since this is the only WK2, the question really should be is the White Knight Two article necessary? because this is the existing example. 70.29.213.241 ( talk) 14:17, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
To this point, a rather detailed Wikipedia article section detailing the WK2 flight test program had emerged in the White Knight Two article. Since the WK2 article is about the class of all WK2 aircraft, and this article, VMS Eve, is about the first article (the first aircraft), I have moved that detailed section from the 'WK2' article to the 'VMS Eve' article today, per Talk:Scaled_Composites_WhiteKnightTwo. In my view, it is a separate discussion to determine what level of detailed flight test data is appropriate in a Wikipedia article over the long term; viz, how much of the detail we ought to keep here in VMS Eve is yet to be determined. N2e ( talk) 19:33, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
On a test flight six weeks ago, WhiteKnightTwo experienced a landing gear failure. I don't believe any mention of this has been made in the article, which is probably okay as it seems to be a relatively minor problem in the grand scheme of things. Nevertheless, I will note here on the Talk page that flight testing has resumed, per this article published today (28 Sep 2010) in Aviation Week. N2e ( talk) 02:58, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
VSS Eve should redirect here, as a plausible misnomer. 65.94.45.160 ( talk) 12:41, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Technically wouldn't the Hughes H-4 Hercules count as it was a ply/resin construction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GraemeLeggett ( talk • contribs) 11:29, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
This Flightglobal article, dated 13 Sep 2012, contains a lot of information about the next stage of the flight test program. Cheers. N2e ( talk) 03:24, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The Flight test program section of the article lists all of the some 114 flights of VMS Eve over the past 4 1/2 years. Some of these were "test flights" of the aircraft, the VMS Eve instance of WK2, but a good number of the flights were not. Moreover, a good number of the flights were not WP:Notable and therefore perhaps don't belong in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia.
It seems to me that the flights in this list fit in one of four categories:
Only the first category is a slam dunk for listing on Wikipedia in this article, although arguably, some of the second category might fit here even though the primary article for that info (test of the craft that is released) is SpaceShipTwo or VSS Enterprise, or other item-under-test that Virgin may contract to carry to high altitude and release. The last two of the four categories are clearly not test flights, and we should not call them that here on Wikipedia, at least not without reliable sources that designate them as test flights for the workhorse/carrier aircraft. It is likely that an occasional flight of WK2/VMSE, even in it's workhorse/carrier-aircraft role of the third bullet, will be notable (such as the first supersonic flight of the craft that is carried to altitude and released, or the first flight to space, or the first passenger flights; those would, of course, be listed. But those are not "test flights".
I'll let this sit a bit to see what other editors think, but my intent is to begin to clean the article up and remove all the unnotable flights that are not verifiably "test flights" of WK2/VMSE. Cheers. N2e ( talk) 11:43, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
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