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Reminds me of a section in Richard Branson's book Losing my Virginity. He had just started Virgin Atlantic and was essentially the target of a smear campaign by British Airways. The future of Virgin was up in the air, more or less.

During all of this, BBC (or some other station) did a short documentary on the situation. They interviewed him at an airfield for retired planes, somewhere in the Southwest US. Quite the ominous setting.

(Can't find the exact quote anywhere, sorry)



There's a boneyard right outside the airport where Scaled Composites is located. Scaled is the company that invented and produces the tech of Virgin Galactic.




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