Pretty damn awesome that's what that was. And the pilot has some brass ones too taking Spaceship One up that high with a faulty control panel. Or maybe he has a little too much of 'the right stuff'?
No, just contingency plans, thought out well in advance. I know that in planning Sphinx and Xerus flight profiles, we've considered what to do if the EFIS shuts down at any point; for some conditions you shut down immediately and abort the mission, for others you just fly it by partial panel and the view out the windows. In the case of SS1 the multiple portholes probably serve as good reference points for attitude control, much like the triangular reference assemblies on the wingtips of competition aerobatic planes.
Simulation is your *friend*.
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