Scaled Composites

Scaled Composites is a U.S. company, the aircraft prototype developed. The company is located in Mojave, California, at the local Mojave Air & Space Port.

History

The company was founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, a renowned aviation and aerospace engineer. In 1974, he had already founded the company Rutan Aircraft Factory. Since 2007, Scaled Composites is owned by Northrop Grumman.

Vice President of the company was temporarily Michael Melvill, the first pilot of SpaceShipOne. Steve Fossett, who has made ​​a name with many record flights, was also co-owner of the company. Burt Rutan left the company on 31 March 2011, but is still out on their website as Emeritus.

Projects of the company

  • Model 115 Starship: to scale, scaled to 85 % of the Beechcraft Starship prototype (1982 )
  • Model 97 Micro Light ( 1983)
  • Model 120 Predator: Agricultural aircraft for Advanced Technology Aircraft Corp.. (1984)
  • Model 80 Grizzly (1986 )
  • Model 133 ATTT (1987 )
  • Model 144 CM -44, developed for California Microwave UAV, now Northrop Grumman (1987 )
  • Model 81 Catbird, a five -seater passenger aircraft (1988 )
  • Model 143 Triumph, built for Beechcraft (1988 )
  • IAI Searcher, long wing version of the Pioneer UAV (1988 )
  • Model TRA324 Scarab, developed for Teledyne Ryan, now Northrop Grumman (1988 )
  • Model 173 Loral TFV (1989 )
  • Lockheed Model 179 Plads Rockbox (1989 )
  • Delta Clipper: contract development for McDonnell Douglas for the outer skin and control surfaces
  • Model 151 ARES (Agile Responsive Effective Support ), the prototype of a small, agile and cheap fighter. Listed in The Aces Iron Eagle as the Messerschmitt Me 263 (1990)
  • Model 158 Pond Racer: contract development for Bob Pond ( 1990)
  • Model 191 (1991)
  • Earth wind, gondola for a balloon ride to orbit (1991 )
  • Model 226 Raptor (1993 )
  • Bell Eagle Eye, experimental development for Bell Helicopter (1993 )
  • Model 233 Freewing, STOL RPV (1994 )
  • Space Industries Comet, unmanned reentry capsule ( 1995)
  • Kistler Zero, two-stage rocket ( 1995)
  • Model 202 Boomerang: an asymmetric twin-engine propeller aircraft, which is designed to secure (symmetric ) flight characteristics even in the event of an engine ( 1996)
  • Model 247 Vantage, contract development for VisionAire (1996 )
  • Model 271 V- Jet II, contract development for Williams International, forerunner of the Eclipse 500 ( 1997)
  • Model 257 Motel 6 DLS, gondola for a balloon ride to orbit (1998)
  • Model 276 NASA X-38 (1998)
  • Model 281 Proteus, a twin-engine jet aircraft, forerunner of White Knight ( 1998)
  • Roton ATV (1999)
  • Model 287 NASA Erastus
  • Model 309 Adam M -309, prototype for Adam A500 (2000)
  • Model 326 Northrop Grumman X - 47A (2001)
  • Model 302 Toyota TAA -1 ( 2002)
  • Tier One (2003) Has a Model 316 SpaceShipOne, the first private aircraft with rocket propulsion, which exceeded the 100 -kilometer altitude, and thus reaches the outer space.
  • Model 318 White Knight, twin-engine aircraft, which SpaceShipOne helps to jump-start at 15 km altitude and unlatches there
  • Model 395, unmanned version of the model 281
  • Model 396, smaller version of the RQ -4 Global Hawk
Types of business entity Limited Liability Company Mike Melvill Scaled Composites ATTT Scaled Composites Catbird Rutan Boomerang Scaled Composites Proteus Rotary Rocket Scaled Composites Tier One SpaceShipThree Virgin Galactic Northrop Grumman Firebird
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