Scaled Composites, LLC made aviation history today with the flight of the largest wingspan aircraft. During this initial flight, the team tested out specific handling qualities to validate the design.

To All NSS Members and Friends: As many of you have heard, there was a serious accident last week at Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan’s pioneering company. Three lives were lost, including Charles ‘Glen’ ...

Gyronautics company Skyworks is teaming up with Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites to build a prototype of its VertiJet vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, the companies announced Monday ...

Northrop Grumman Corp. acquired privately held aerospace company Scaled Composites LLC, the builder of the first successful privately funded and manned spaceship. The July 5 acquisition was reported ...

Scaled Composites has revealed plans to apply hybrid gasoline-electric propulsion on "future unique aircraft configurations" after completing initial ground and flight tests of the Model 367 BiPod.

Hello all,<BR><BR>Some of you may recognize my nick from the days when I was posting many a woodworking thread in the Lounge, though lesser known is that I have had a much longer interest in designing ...

Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne is flying again after testing was halted to address a pitch hangup that occurred on a Sept. 23 flight (AW&ST Oct. 6, p. 43). The company conducted a full-scale wind ...

Scaled Composites could still face a criminal or civil prosecution over the explosion that occurred on 26 July 2007 killing three of its employees. The California Occupational Safety and Health ...

When Paul Allen founded Stratolaunch in 2011, the hope was to make access to space cheaper and faster. The company’s massive carrier aircraft, the largest plane by wingspan ever to be built, would be ...

Scaled Composites announces the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401. Scaled worked with a proprietary customer to build two vehicles to demonstrate ...

The suborbital spaceship being tested by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites fired its rocket engine and went supersonic for the first time Wednesday, on the of the Wright ...

SAN DIEGO­—Northrop Grumman-owned Scaled Composites has unveiled a concept for an optionally piloted, high-altitude aircraft capable of carrying modular payloads up to 10,000 lb., aimed at roles ...