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David William Donald Mackay AFC (born 1957) is the Chief Pilot of Virgin Galactic, a commercial astronaut and a former RAF test pilot. He is the first native-born Scot to visit space. [1]
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david mackay sustainable energy david mackay director naughty or nice david mackay information theory david mackay energy david mackay kellogg david mackay music Jul 11, 2021 · A Scottish pilot was at the centre of Sir Richard Branson's historic trip to the edge of space. David Mackay, who grew up in Helmsdale, Sutherland, was chief pilot for Virgin Galactic's Unity...
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Finding out who will become the first Scotsman in space was just a matter of time because Scotland is an undeniable driver of the UK space industry. It takes second place after California in satellite manufacturing. Here, the first commercial launchers and space hubs are built. Plus, it is the motherland of Dave MacKay, one of the three British ast...
David MacKay was born in 1957 in Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands. When he was a young kid, he fell in love with the skies. There were numerous military aircraft flying above his home, and little Dave was fascinated with them. The world’s space race, started in the 1960s, opened a completely new world to him and predetermined his fate. As was th...
After leaving the RAF in 1995, David MacKay joined Virgin Atlantic founded by a British billionaire Sir Richard Branson. For the next 14 years, he piloted Boeing 747 and Airbus A340, logging 11,000 hours in total. In 2009, pilot Dave MacKay was invited to work for Branson’s Virgin Galactic as a Chief Testing Pilot of the SpaceShip Two VSS Unity – a...
Today, Great Britain joins the space race eagerly. Scottish companies Orbex Space and Skyroraare getting the first British carrier rockets ready to launch. Meanwhile, the UK Space Agency arranged five sites for UK spaceport construction. One of them is located at Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, the native region of David MacKay Virgin Galacti...
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Jul 25, 2021 · Scottish space pilot David Mackay has taken Virgin Orbit founder Richard Branson to the edge of space. The fully crewed Unity 22 rocket plane, piloted by Mackay and Michael Masucci, has carried out a successful flight, paving the way for future space tourism trips.
- Emma Thorpe
Feb 22, 2019 · David Mackay, originally from Helmsdale, has been the company’s chief pilot since 2011 and was on board SpaceShipTwo as it made the ascent into space on its fifth test flight.
Dec 11, 2012 · David Mackay is the chief pilot for Virgin Galactic, which hopes to take commercial airline flights outside Earth's atmosphere within the next two years.
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Jul 12, 2021 · David Mackay, who grew up in Helmsdale, Sutherland, was the chief pilot for Virgin Galactic’s Unity test mission.
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