IP: XCOR Aerospace - world's first private rocket-plane flies at Mojave!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:36:10 -0800
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com>
> Subject: XCOR Aerospace - world's first private rocket-plane flies at
>   Mojave!
>
> I attended the rollout of the XCOR EZ-Rocket yesterday in Mojave, 
> CA.   The EZ-Rocket is a demonstrator testbed aircraft powered entirely by 
> XCOR's 400lb thrust liquid fueled rocket engines which the company has 
> developed for air and space vehicle applications using private funding 
> (um, that's my part...)
>
> XCOR is a 10 person company in Mojave that's building rocket powered air 
> and space craft as a startup.  I'm their first investor and a member of 
> the Board of Directors.  I'm pretty proud of these guys for getting this 
> entire vehicle built and flown for around $400K.  (We call this Cheaper, 
> Better, Faster *and* Right Now...)
>
> I figure some persons on IP might be interested in this stuff as a change 
> from the 3 A's:  Afghanistan, Anthrax and Ashcroft....
>
> A short video story that appeared on KABC Channel 7 Los Angeles yesterday 
> (and was relayed on FOX today apparently):
>
> PC Users:
> http://www.xcor.com/video/ezrollout_ch7ABC.wmv
> Macintosh Users:
> http://www.xcor.com/video/ezrollout_ch7ABC.mov
>
> Some other print stories:
>
> The LA Daily news article:
> http://www.dailynews.com/business/articles/1101/13/biz07.asp
> Also the full AP article:
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011112/bs/rocket_plane_1.html
> Photos from AP are here:
> http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news_photos?n=20&p=xcor
>
> Company website is at www.xcor.com
>
> Joseph C. Pistritto                             Cell: 650 464 4859
> jcp () jcphome com                             Web: www.jcphome.com


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