I had. I'd actually forgotten. Thanks to Boing Boing's guestbar blogger Todd Lappin for reminding me. Following links hither and yon I was reminded about Steve Bennett's Starchaser, who has been in the news, on and off, for building various large rockets and firing them off. More on him later.
As previously noted, SpaceShipOne looks like something out of Dan Dare, and is trés cool. On 17 December, the centenary of powered flight, it fired its rocket motor in anger for the first time and promptly broke the sound barrier. We like SpaceShipOne. Incidentally, [Paul Allen][] (of Microsoft fame) is the man with the money. If I was Paul Allen, I'd invest in Dan Dare too. But I'd make 'em come to England and wear natty green uniforms. (And I'd make [Burt Rutan][] get a Sir Hubert moustache.) The only thing I'm unsure of is if Digby would fit into SpaceShipOne. I hope he would. [Paul Allen]:http://www.vulcan.com/ [Burt Rutan]:http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/NewIndex/photos/images/800/Bert%20and%20Paul800.jpg "A photo of Burt Rutan, Scaled Composite's owner/operator with Paul Allen. Burt's the one with the buccaneer sideburns." [reminded by [bitworking](http://bitworking.org/)]
[Paul Allen]:http://www.vulcan.com/ [Burt Rutan]:http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/NewIndex/photos/images/800/Bert%20and%20Paul800.jpg "A photo of Burt Rutan, Scaled Composite's owner/operator with Paul Allen. Burt's the one with the buccaneer sideburns." [reminded by [bitworking](http://bitworking.org/)]