Brian Binnie
Brian Binnie is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. On 17 December, 2003, the 100th's anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight, Binnie piloted the first powered test flight of SpaceShipOne, flight 11P, which reached a top speed of Mach 1.2 and a height of 20.7 kilometers.
Binnie, an alumnus of Brown and Princeton Universities, served for 20 years in the United States Navy as a F/A-18 pilot, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1988.
As one of the four qualified pilots for SpaceShipOne, Binnie may fly of one of the launches of the craft later in 2004 to meet the requirements of the Ansari X Prize.
