Scaled composites

Scaled Composites, LLC
legal form	Limited Liability Company
founding	1982
Seat	Mojave , California
management	Doug Shane President Burt Rutan Founder / CTO Designer Emeritus
Number of employees	over 200
Website	www.scaled.com

Scaled Composites is a US company that develops aircraft prototypes. The company is based in Mojave , California , at the Mojave Air & Space Port there . It is part of the aviation, space and defense company Northrop Grumman .

history

The company was founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan , a well-known aerospace engineer. In 1974 he founded the company Rutan Aircraft Factory . Scaled Composites has been owned by Northrop Grumman since 2007 .

The company's vice president was Michael Melvill , the first SpaceShipOne pilot . Steve Fossett , who has made a name for himself with many record flights, was also a co-owner of the company. Burt Rutan left the company on March 31, 2011, but is still listed on their website as an emeritus .

Products

Beechcraft Starship, based on the Model 115

Model 309, prototype for Adam A500

The follow-up project: White Knight Two together with SpaceShipTwo

• Model 115 Starship : scale prototype of the Beechcraft Starship (1982) reduced to 85%
• Model 97 Microlight (1983)
• Model 120 Predator : agricultural aircraft for Advanced Technology Aircraft Corp. (1984)
• Model 80 Grizzly (1986)
• Model 133 ATTT (1987)
• Model 144 CM-44 , UAV developed for California Microwave , now Northrop Grumman (1987)
• Model 81 Catbird , a five-seat touring 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)
• Model 179 Lockheed 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 combat aircraft. To be seen in Die Ase der Stahlernen Adler as Messerschmitt Me 263 (1990)
• Model 158 Pond Racer : contract development for Bob Pond (1990)
• Model 191 (1991)
• Earthwinds , gondola for a balloon ride to orbit the earth (1991)
• Model 226 Raptor (1993)
• Bell Eagle Eye , experimental development for Bell Helicopter (1993)
• Model 233 Freewing , STOL RPV (1994)
• Space Industries Comet , Unmanned Re-Entry Capsule (1995)
• Kistler Zero , two-stage rocket (1995)
• Model 202 Boomerang : an asymmetrical twin-engine propeller plane that is designed for safe (symmetrical) flight characteristics even if one engine fails (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 the earth (1998)
• Model 276 NASA X-38 (1998)
• Model 281 Proteus , a twin-engine jet engine, predecessor of White Knight (1998)
• Roton ATV (1999)
• Model 287 NASA ERAST
• 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)
  • Model 316 SpaceShipOne , the first private rocket-powered aircraft that exceeded 100 kilometers in altitude, and thus reached space.
  • Model 318 White Knight , twin-engine aircraft, which SpaceShipOne carries for jump start at an altitude of 15 km and releases it there
• Model 311 Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer , the first jet-engine aircraft with which a single person ( Steve Fossett ) orbited the earth non-stop and without refueling (March 1-3, 2005) (2004)
• Tier 1b (2008)
  • Model 339 SpaceShipTwo
  • Model 348 White Knight Two
• SpaceShipThree , possible successor to SpaceShipTwo for point-to-point flights around the earth
• Scaled Composites Stratolaunch , launch platform for launch vehicles based on the Stratolaunch process
• Launch vehicle LauncherOne that of The Spaceship Company will be built on the next Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is involved. The rocket is carried by Model 348 White Knight Two to 15,000 meters.
• Model 355 Firebird , prototype of a spy plane in cooperation with Northrop Grumman
• USAF Hunter Killer Project in cooperation with Northrop Grumman
  • Model 395 , unmanned version of the Model 281
  • Model 396 , smaller version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk
• Model 400 , prototype of a single-engine trainer aircraft developed for parent company Northrop Grumman
• Model 401 , demonstrator for future manufacturing technologies and aerodynamics

See also

• Rutan Aircraft Factory

Web links

Commons : Scaled Composites  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Scaled Composites Website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The Management Team. In: scaled.com. Retrieved December 16, 2011 . 
2. ^ Dan Linehan: SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History . 1st edition. Zenith Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7603-3188-0 , pp. 15 (English).
3. ↑ Stephen Trimble: What happens to Scaled Composites after Burt Rutan? In: flightglobal.com. November 9, 2011, archived from the original on November 13, 2011 ; accessed on December 16, 2011 . 
4. ^ Stephen Trimble: Rutan starts work on new light aircraft. In: flightglobal.com. November 7, 2011, accessed December 16, 2011 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Linehan, Dan. SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History . Zenith Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7603-3188-0 .

Coordinates: 35 ° 3 '23.4 "  N , 118 ° 9' 40.9"  W.