Tickets:
R100 per person (price not finalised yet). First come first served. Contact
Russell to book: russelvb@absa.co.za
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Aero Club membership number (if applicable)
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Vice
President/General Manager and a Test Pilot and one of 10 owners of Scaled
Composites, LLC in Mojave,
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He has
worked for Burt Rutan for 26 years, and has 21 years of experience as an
experimental test pilot.
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He holds
an FAA Commercial pilot’s certificate, ASEL, AMEL, instrument airplane,
Rotorcraft-helicopter and Glider.
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He
recently became the first commercial Astronaut, after flying SpaceShipOne to
above 100 km on June 21st 1004.
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He has
accumulated 7000 flight hours in 123 fixed wing-types, and 11 rotary wing
types.
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He is a
Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
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He has
been a member of AOPA for 35 years.
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He has
been a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association for 31
years.
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He was
awarded the Ivan C. Kincheloe trophy in 1999 by the SETP for high altitude,
developmental flight-testing of the model 281 Proteus aircraft. He was awarded
his second Ivan C. Kincheloe trophy at this year’s annual SETP Symposium for his
work flight-testing SpaceShipOne.
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He holds
five World and National speed and altitude records in Rutan’s Catbird, Proteus
and SpaceShipOne aircraft.
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He has
flown 10 FIRST flights of Burt Rutan’s aircraft designs, including Burt’s
latest, the SpaceShipOne.
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He built
his own Variviggen and Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft.
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He and
Dick Rutan flew their Long-EZ’s around the world in 1997
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He is a
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