Da Vinci Project

Brian Feeney (* 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 occurs in a simulator of the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine.

A native of Toronto challenger Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites announced by the company at the beginning of July 2004, his spaceship Wildfire end of September 2004 to fly into space. A helium balloon brings the capsule at 20 km altitude and then fly on their own. The concept differs considerably from the rocket plane SpaceShipOne, because the landing does not occur as an airplane, but by means of parachute and airbags.

Sponsor of the project with the name Da Vinci is the company Sun Microsystems. There 150.000 working hours, and 4 million U.S. dollars have been invested.

Brian Feeney announced on 5 August 2004 that they wanted to start on October 2, 2004, just three days after the first flight of SpaceShipOne price, the spaceship Wildfire Mark VI. Then the second flight was to take place after two weeks. End of September 2004 moved the da Vinci Project 's first for the October 2, 2004 registered the first official X Prize flight indefinitely.

• Engineer, inventor, engineer
• Canadian
• Born in the 20th century
• Man