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  ©2015 Bloomberg News NYT3LOSYF01S (Bloomberg) — Richard Branson is finding a new use for an old Virgin Atlantic jumbo jetliner: to fling rockets to orbit. Virgin Galactic, the commercial space company founded by the billionaire, plans to send small rockets inflight from the Boeing 747-400 nicknamed “Cosmic Girl” that

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NKYEI46JTSEV (Bloomberg) — U.K. billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. posted its first annual profit since 2011 following a two-year revival plan underpinned by collaboration with U.S. shareholder Delta Air Lines Inc. Pretax profit before one-time items was 14.4 million pounds ($22 million) in 2014, compared with

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