Brian Feeney

Brian Feeney (* around 1960) is a Canadian aircraft designer and one of the competitors for the Ansari X-Prize of the X-Prize Foundation .

He spent about a year at a university and has only 25 hours of flight experience. His training for space flight takes place in a simulator of the Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine .

The Toronto- based challenger from Burt Rutan from Scaled Composites announced in early July 2004 that he would fly into space with his spaceship Wild Fire in late September 2004. A helium balloon brings the capsule to an altitude of 20 kilometers and then continues to fly on its own. The concept differs significantly from the SpaceShipOne rocket aircraft , because landing is not carried out like an airplane, but by means of a parachute and airbags.

Sun Microsystems is the sponsor of the Da Vinci project . It invested 150,000 man hours and $ 4 million.

Brian Feeney announced on August 5, 2004 that they wanted to launch the Wild Fire Mark VI spacecraft on October 2, 2004, just three days after SpaceShipOne's first prize flight . Then the second flight should take place after two weeks at the latest. At the end of September 2004, the da Vinci Project postponed its first official X Prize flight, which was initially registered for October 2, 2004, for an indefinite period.