First Commercial Spacecraft Completes Flight

According to CNN.com, two pilots flew the world’s first manned commercial spacecraft over California’s Mojave Desert just recently at 45,000 feet in the air. They were the only ones aboard the spacecraft’s test flight, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson’s dream come true. He wants to come space travel affordable and possible. Sky Limo Air Charter, you full service private aviation company, found out the spaceship is called the VSS Enterprise. It landed on the runway at Mojave Air and Space Port. Virgin Galactic is on its way to becoming the world’s first commercial space line with 370 customer deposits equaling $50 million. Sky Limo found out the future commercial operations will operate at New Mexico’s Spaceport America where there will be a runway inauguration ceremony in late October. The 60-foot-long rocket plane will be taking 60,000 feet flight. The people behind Virgin Galactic are thinking one flight a week with six people on board. Each will pay $200,000 for the ride and train for three days before going. There are about 80,000 people on the waiting list as of now.

Plane Flying Underwater

Sky Limo always likes to report on all things travel and the newest inventions to hit the skies, except this one goes underwater, 20,000 leagues under sea to be exact. According to CNN.com, Virgin just unveiled the latest addition to Richard’s Branson luxury fleet, an underwater plane that will fly riders complete with their very own pilot into the ‘depths of the Caribbean Sea”. Guests on Necker Island, a retreat in the British Virgin Islands will be able to dive underwater in a submarine called the Necker Nymph for $25,000 a week. But in order to stay on the private island owned by Richard Branson, it costs $300,000 a week. The underwater plane uses the downward pressure on its wings to fly through the water for up to two hours at a time. It’s typical speed is two to five nautical miles per hour and it could dive to more than 100 feet. Riders have to follow SCUBA procedures and be trained or accompanied by certified pilots before riding the plane. Virgin said: “The Necker Nymph claims "near-zero" environmental impact because its "positive buoyancy prevents the sub from landing on a reef, and its low light and noise emissions ensure the fragile ocean ecosystems remain undisturbed."