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Hello guys & girls
Please see the link below for 2 pilot jobs I have found. This is the dream opportunity for any one who flies.
Careers | Virgin Galactic
Please see the link below for 2 pilot jobs I have found. This is the dream opportunity for any one who flies.
Careers | Virgin Galactic
....ah, sure i read in the small print that you'll have to pay for your own TR...you think that VG have a bond for this ?! haha
I've been told on many occasions that i'm a "space cadet", so definitely going to apply.....
I've been told on many occasions that i'm a "space cadet", so definitely going to apply.....
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Many new pilots in the 70/80s thought they would become astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonaut one day...
This VG add is the proof there is not such a possibility, never had, it was just a dream.
This dream concerns a very few people (even less than before!) who won't travel in the universe, but will make a little jump around the earth, pretending it is space, making the situation more ridiculous for the arrogant human being.
This VG add is the proof there is not such a possibility, never had, it was just a dream.
This dream concerns a very few people (even less than before!) who won't travel in the universe, but will make a little jump around the earth, pretending it is space, making the situation more ridiculous for the arrogant human being.
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regarding (Groundloop) "Except that you would not get many flying hours."
flying once a week is the ideal lifestyle.
I believe Virgin Galactic will pay for the Type rating & line training (gliding back to earth).
I also believe the salary is between $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year. But they want the best!!!
flying once a week is the ideal lifestyle.
I believe Virgin Galactic will pay for the Type rating & line training (gliding back to earth).
I also believe the salary is between $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year. But they want the best!!!
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gliding back to earth
We left earth a few times,a long time ago, in the 60/70s (even if more and more people affirm it was fake, internet is the best place for the conspiracy theories, but that's a whole different topic) and never ever left earth since. Funny enough no country in the world with our modern technology is able to make an human being to leave earth in 2011, neither seriously forecast to be able to do it in the future, weird...
The little jump you can get with Virgin GALACTIC (what a name!), or other """"SPACE TOURIST"""" (haha!) business with a russian fighter (or even the international "space" station that has no choice but to stay on earth at very low altitude) is the very proof we can do very little (seriously, I mean "nothing") about this famous maned space "exploration".
21 st century is a wake up call. The one that says: "take care of your earth like it was your mother, don't think you can spoil it and live on the moon afterwards", because nowadays this thought is just ridiculous, and any arrogant little jump (less than 50 Nautical Miles-Diameter of the earth 5000 NM-...) inside the protective earth atmosphere and so bellow the van allen earth protection we call space because of a definition misunderstanding is here to remind us the hard reality.
Those little jump that last a few seconds, that are not able to leave the earth van allen protection, that are sold like space flight (playing with the space definition***) that makes you a cosmonaut (re-haha!) are for rich kids (or imature adult) to fill up their ego, there is no other purpose than that one.
Let's focus/invest in priority on EDUCATION/QUALITY FOOD/HEALTH/WORLD STABILITY/PEACE/ECOLOGY and avoid useless ego inflatement that is always the source one way or an other of competition, arrogance, economy/technology competition, wars. 1 million years from now we will still live on the earth, let's not fool ourselves, better to start right now to make the earth our home, a clean one.
*** What they call space is in fact the lower layers of the thermosphere, much below the ionosphere. Definitively on earth and inside its atmosphere.
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Yeah... I admit, there are more optimistic ways to see the last century shameless (shameless for many reasons...) space race and the nowadays "space" tourism.
Us, pilots are always convinced by the "space" stuff, I just show an other angle for our viewpoint, it cannot hurt, food for thought that's all.
Mainly I don't like that the space propaganda (movies, scientist, space enthousiats...) give us (uncounsiously) the justification not to take care of our earth, and make us beleive that our heritage for our kids will be our technology, technology that allows any dream to come true. This is all wrong, our only heritage for the future is the earth, the sooner we will understand that the sooner we will change our life philosophy.
Knowing and truly understanding we will live on the earth for ever would change many things in our way of thinking and would be for the best, instead of trying to escape this reality by speaking about space and "jumping" in the atmosphere like a junky takes his shot of drug to forget about the reality of his life.
Us, pilots are always convinced by the "space" stuff, I just show an other angle for our viewpoint, it cannot hurt, food for thought that's all.
Mainly I don't like that the space propaganda (movies, scientist, space enthousiats...) give us (uncounsiously) the justification not to take care of our earth, and make us beleive that our heritage for our kids will be our technology, technology that allows any dream to come true. This is all wrong, our only heritage for the future is the earth, the sooner we will understand that the sooner we will change our life philosophy.
Knowing and truly understanding we will live on the earth for ever would change many things in our way of thinking and would be for the best, instead of trying to escape this reality by speaking about space and "jumping" in the atmosphere like a junky takes his shot of drug to forget about the reality of his life.
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Interesting to know who took part to designed the original VG "space"craft half a century ago...
Wouldn't be good advertisement.
Who knows, in fact I am not sure about that (good or bad advertisement): the nazi technology and nazi scientists and nazi engeneers and even nazi material (the actual first rocket used to start the american space program) is 100% behind the moon space adventure (even the head of NASA at that time was a SS nazi officer), and it's not secret since the 80s (it was secret before...) still, using the moon trip is always good advertisement and put stars in the eyes to all my pilot colleagues.
We all have a very short memory, and the western world always decide what is good or bad, whithout anybody to give them a reality check.
Wouldn't be good advertisement.
Who knows, in fact I am not sure about that (good or bad advertisement): the nazi technology and nazi scientists and nazi engeneers and even nazi material (the actual first rocket used to start the american space program) is 100% behind the moon space adventure (even the head of NASA at that time was a SS nazi officer), and it's not secret since the 80s (it was secret before...) still, using the moon trip is always good advertisement and put stars in the eyes to all my pilot colleagues.
We all have a very short memory, and the western world always decide what is good or bad, whithout anybody to give them a reality check.
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Yes right, he was not the administrator if this is what you mean, he was the director of the biggest and most important center of NASA.
He was the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center. And what is that? Here it is: The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest center of NASA, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program. Marshall is today the agency's lead center for Space Shuttle propulsion and its external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; and computers, networks, and information management. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George Marshall.
He was also the chief architect of Saturn V.
He was a director for NASA, and at the very center of the moon project, both as a director of the Marshall space flight center and as a scientist. Cannot be more involved than that.
I should have been more accurate I beleive. Let's be more precise then:
The director of the Marshall space flight center (yes this is NASA, the most important part of it if we speak about space and moon), and the chief architect of Saturn V (the first one to reach the moon in our history) was a nazi SS officer.
Hope I have been accurate enough.
He was the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center. And what is that? Here it is: The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. The largest center of NASA, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program. Marshall is today the agency's lead center for Space Shuttle propulsion and its external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; and computers, networks, and information management. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George Marshall.
He was also the chief architect of Saturn V.
He was a director for NASA, and at the very center of the moon project, both as a director of the Marshall space flight center and as a scientist. Cannot be more involved than that.
I should have been more accurate I beleive. Let's be more precise then:
The director of the Marshall space flight center (yes this is NASA, the most important part of it if we speak about space and moon), and the chief architect of Saturn V (the first one to reach the moon in our history) was a nazi SS officer.
Hope I have been accurate enough.
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there is on average around 3000 pilots that apply for 1 pilot job these days. Most airline companies are getting around 500 to 1200 applications for a pilot job a month.
join the long queue: I am hoping I will get my first chance in 1013 when the market picks up. I got my frozen ATPL in 2008.
join the long queue: I am hoping I will get my first chance in 1013 when the market picks up. I got my frozen ATPL in 2008.
