Brian binnie biography
Brian Binnie, SpaceShipOne test pilot who won XPRIZE, dies at 69!
Brian Binnie
US Navy officer and test pilot (1953–2022)
For the curler, see Brian Binnie (curler).
William Brian Binnie (April 26, 1953 – September 15, 2022) was a United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites and flown from 2003 to 2004.
Brian binnie biography
Early life
Binnie was born in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 26, 1953,[1] 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.[2] When Binnie was a teenager the family moved to Boston.[3]
Binnie earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Brown University.
He earned a master's degree from Brown in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Binnie was rejected by the United States Air Force, and enrolled at Princeton University, where