Scaled Composites
An aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave,
California (about 80 miles north of Los Angeles). Founded in 1982 by Burt
Rutan, Scaled has broad experience in air
vehicle design, tooling, and manufacturing, specialty composite structure
design, analysis and fabrication, and developmental flight test. It is best
known for its design and manufacture of the SpaceShipOne
space plane, which won the Ansari X Prize, and the super-fuel efficient,
lightweight GlobalFlyer and Voyager aircraft, which hold the current and
previous world non-stop distance records for powered planes. Among Scaled's
current projects are development of the Virgin
Galactic spaceship passenger-carrying space plane. Related
category
AEROSPACE
AND RELATED COMPANIES
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