Re: da Vinci's WildFire to fly Oct 2nd

At 03:43 PM 8/5/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi ...
>
>The Canadian da Vinci group unvailed their X Prize craft in Toronto
>today and announced that they will make their first of 2 X Prize
>flights Oct 2nd from their launch site in central Saskatchewan.

I'm a little irate about the DVP press.  The idea that they are announcing 
an X-Prize flight without having made a single solitary test flight is just 
absurd.  The "flight testing" that they still talk about on their web site 
was microcosm's testing of systems that DVP was originally intending to 
use, but they aren't even using those any more.  I suppose that they have 
an obligation to their sponsors to maximize media coverage, but it just 
strikes me as dishonest.

John Carmack