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| name = William Brian Binnie | image = Brian Binnie by Don Ramey Logan.jpg | caption = Binnie in 2004 | type = Commercial astronaut | nationality = American | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1953}} | death_date = | birth_place = West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. | death_place = | occupation = Test pilot | rank = Commander, United States Navy | selection = SpaceShipOne 2003 | space_time = ~5 minutes | missions = SpaceShipOne flight 17P | insignia = }} William Brian Binnie (born 1953) is a former United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites and flown from 2003–2004. HistoryBinnie was born in West Lafayette, Indiana, where his Scottish father William P. Binnie was a professor of physics at Purdue University. The family returned to Scotland when Binnie was five, and lived in Aberdeen (his father taught at Aberdeen University) and later in Stirling.[1] When Binnie was a teenager the family moved to Boston.[2] Binnie, an alumnus of Brown and Princeton Universities, served for 21 years in the United States Navy as a naval aviator flying the A-7 Corsair II, A-6 Intruder, F/A-18 Hornet, and AV-8B Harrier II. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1988. Binnie also copiloted the Atmospheric Test Vehicle of the Rotary Rocket. In 2006, he received an Honorary degree from University of Aberdeen.[3] SpaceShipOne and spaceflightOn December 17, 2003, the 100th 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 {{convert|20.7|km|mi|disp=flip}}. On October 4, 2004, he piloted SpaceShipOne's second Ansari X Prize flight, flight 17P, winning the X Prize and becoming the 435th person to go into space. His flight, which peaked at {{convert|367442|ft|mi km|1}}, set a winged aircraft altitude record,[4] breaking the old record set by the North American X-15 in 1963.[5] It also earned him the second set of Astronaut Wings to be given by the FAA for a flight aboard a privately operated commercial spacecraft.[6] Post Scaled CompositesIn 2014 Binnie joined XCOR Aerospace as senior engineer and test pilot, after working as a test pilot and program business manager for Scaled Composites for many years.[7] Quotes{{quote|I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.|Brian Binnie|October 4, 2004, after completing flight 17P[5]}}References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://icstirlingshire.icnetwork.co.uk/observer/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=17409899%26siteid=92391-name_page.html |title=Stirling has a space ace |work=Stirling Observer |date=July 19, 2006 |accessdate=November 4, 2006}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW04-05/09-0223/features4.html |title=Rocket man |work=Princeton Alumni Weekly |first=Kathy |last=Kiely |date=February 23, 2005 |accessdate=November 4, 2006}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/north_east/5140682.stm |title=Degree for 'first Scot in space' |work=BBC News |date=July 3, 2006 |accessdate=November 4, 2006}} 4. ^"FAI Record ID #9881 – Altitude above the earth's surface with or without maneuvres of the aerospacecraft, Class P-1 (Suborbital missions) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018225245/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9881 |date=October 18, 2015 }}" Mass {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043352/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=10434 |date=September 24, 2015 }} Time {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045447/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9882 |date=September 24, 2015 }} Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Retrieved: 21 September 2014. 5. ^1 {{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2004/10/65212 |title=SpaceShipOne Wins the X Prize |work=Wired | first=Dan |last=Brekke |date=October 4, 2004 |accessdate=November 4, 2006}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.faa.gov/data_research/commercial_space_data/current_licenses/ |title=Active Commercial Space Licenses |work=FAA.gov |accessdate=May 3, 2009}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.spacenews.com/article/features/40089spaceship-pilot-joins-rival-firm |title=Spaceship Pilot Joins Rival Firm |work=Space News |first=Irene |last=Klotz |date=April 3, 2014 |accessdate=April 4, 2014}} External links{{Portal|Biography}}{{commons category|Brian Binnie}}
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