Orbital tourism is a long way off, for all of the mentioned reasons. However, SUB-orbital tourism, on the XPrize/XCOR/Armadillo model will be about as expensive and playing with "Warbirds" [WW-2, and later (Jet) military airplanes]. There are a number of "Top Gun for a Day" operations, Confederatexxxxx Comemorative Air Force chapters, as well as rich guys who own a WW-2 fighter or a Korean War vintage jet fighter [T-33, T-38, F-86, East block jet trainer, etc.]
The pricing and business model for Warbird Schools is well estabished, as well as the FAA Regulations for same. You can do flight training in non-standard-certificated (FAA-coined word) aircraft. One such school in Florida tries to get about $300 per hour using AT-6 [Advanced WW-2 prop trainer] in a half day experience, which includes about 1.5 hours of flight time, the rest being ground school. --- Doug Drummond, EAA member since 1974. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
