Vulture 2 spaceplane rises from the powdered nylon

Lester Haines and the guys and girls over at The Register, a UK based tech website are doing great things. We love the work they do there cutting edge with the right amount irreverence. Their PARIS project  holds a Guinness world record for the highest paper aeroplane launch and just this week a brave teddy bear beat Felix Baumgartner’s high altitude parachute record by jumping from 39,000m. Did he jump or was he pushed is a question that of course must be asked.

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There’s mounting excitement here at the Special Project Bureau’s mountaintop headquarters as we prepare to receive the parts of our Vulture 2 spaceplane.

Our chums down at 3D printers 3T RPD Ltd have just dusted off the outer wings and wingtip rudder assemblies, seen here in these rough CAD views. The top couple of images show the wings attached to the aircraft’s fuselage, and there’s more on that and the vehicle’s various components here:

Full story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/30/vulture_wing/