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 tests of air and space vehicles.
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Model 97 is a two-place, side-by-side airplane of the 300 lb empty weight class. It has a slightly swept-back canard forward and swept back wings with winglets at the tips.
A subscale version of an eleven-place, twin turboprop, high-performance business aircraft developed for Beech Aircraft Corporation.
The Model 133-4.62 ATTT proof-of-concept demonstrator is a 62% scaled version of an airplane designed to challenging STOL and long range requirements.
The all-composite Triumph, an 8,500 lb, pressurized 8-place business aircraft, was designed around the brand-new, never flown, Williams FJ-44 turbofan engine.
Scaled did the structural design, tooling, fabrication, and static testing of an 85 ft span and a 108 ft span rigid sail/airfoil for the America’s Cup Challenge Race.
The ARES, Scaled Model 151, was designed initially in response to a U.S. Army request for a Low Cost Battlefield Attack Aircraft (LCBAA).
The Advanced Engineering Staff of General Motors designed a technology demonstration vehicle called the Ultralite, an automobile with interior room capable of seating four full size adults, and with excellent visibility, handling, performance, emissions and fuel consumption.
The Raptor Demonstrator high-altitude, long endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program was conducted under a contract from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to Scaled Composites, LLC.
In early 1993, Jim Rice and Tom Stark of the fledgling VisionAire Corporation visited Scaled with conceptual designs for a new single-engine business jet.
Walled Lake, Michigan, June 23, 1997 -- Williams International today announced that its all-composite, turbofan- powered "V-JET II" light aircraft is on schedule for its July 31 fly-in and follow-on demonstration flights and exhibition at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) convention at Oshkosh, July 30 to August 5, 1997.
Proteus is a twin-turbofan, high-altitude, multi-mission aircraft powered by Williams International FJ44-2E engines.
The Model 309 is a proof-of-concept aircraft built for Adam Aircraft Industries.
The GlobalFlyer is a single seat, turbofan powered airplane designed to fly around the world nonstop, unrefueled, with a solo pilot.
SpaceShipOne, the first private manned spacecraft, is a three-place, high-altitude research rocket.
White Knight is a three-place, high-altitude, flexible and capable research aircraft.
The Model 326 aircraft (or Pegasus X-47A) is an unmanned aerial vehicle built for Northrop Grumman.
SpaceShipTwo will be powered by a unique hybrid rocket motor, which is currently under development.
WhiteKnightTwo, or Eve, is the mothership and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo.
Rocket Motor Ground Tests
The rocket motor main components, the composite nitrous oxidizer tank and CTN (unitized motor case/throat/nozzle) have been in development at Scaled since mid 2001. Those components passed their qualification tests by late 2002. The other motor components (controller, valve, injector, aft bulkhead, head insulation, ignition system and fuel) are being developed and tested by two competing subcontractors. The two companies are eAc and SpaceDev .
Due to the competitive nature of the current rocket ground test program, test details cannot be divulged. The following are the dates of the full-scale motor firing events. This list does not include sub-scale or cold flow tests. All these tests have used full-scale, flight-article components, mounted on our mobile rocket motor test stand. The test stand uses the same tank, CTN and adjacent structure as SpaceShipOne.
Due to the competitive nature of the current rocket ground test program, test details cannot be divulged. The following are the dates of the full-scale motor firing events. This list does not include sub-scale or cold flow tests. All these tests have used full-scale, flight-article components, mounted on our mobile rocket motor test stand. The test stand uses the same tank, CTN and adjacent structure as SpaceShipOne.
| VENDOR | DATE OF TEST | INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|
| SpaceDev | 21 Nov 02 | |
| eAc | 16 Jan 03 | |
| eAc | 22 Feb 03 | |
| SpaceDev | 12 Mar 03 | |
| SpaceDev | 19 Mar 03 | |
| eAc | 22 Mar 03 | |
| SpaceDev | 03 June 03 | |
| eAc | 19 June 03 | |
| eAc | 24 July 03 | full-duration |
| SpaceDev | 31 July 03 | full-duration |
| eAc | 4 Sept 03 | full-duration |
| SpaceDev | 18 Nov 03 | Flight motor qualification run. A ground test to validate the first two planned powered flights of SpaceShipOne. All performance requirements and safety limits were met. |
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