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batic weight of 69-4kg/m2.
The new aircraft was designed
by Stelio Frati, a noted Italian
light-aircraft designer. •
Pinguino resembles other Stelio Frati designs, the SF.260 and Jet Squalus
Scaled Composites assembles Pond Racer for record attempt
The Pond Racer will have two 3-2-litre Nissan V-30 automotive engines
Scaled Composites has com pleted the airframe of the
Pond Racer, the ...
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 ...ication between Fosset
and the MCC will be made via an
Iridium hand-held satcom tele
phone. "Contact with Steve will be
mainly via email," says Stass.
The aircraft is undergoing
ground tests at Scaled Composites'
plant in Mojave, California ahead
of its first flight, expected by early
February. The test programme will
comprise up to 50 flights, flown
mainly by Scaled Composites
pilots,...
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 ... reconfirmed the results of
a series of recent glide tests under
taken over recent months to evalu
ate aerodynamic modifications
made to correct an uncommanded
pitch-up problem uncovered during
Scaled Composites says damage to SpaceShipOne will be easily repaired
a glide test in September. During
later tests Scaled Composites
intends to demonstrate zero-£ con
ditions at apogee for more t...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
DEVELOPMENT MICHAEL PHELAN / LONDON
Rutan bids for $10 million X-Prize
Preparation of two-stage design under way in California as Scaled Composites works to win private rocket contest
Scaled Composites is preparing its
challenge for the $10 million
X-Prize private rocket competition.
Its two-stage sub-orbital design
compris...
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 ...EADLINES
SPACEFLIGHT STEPHEN TRIMBLE / WASHINGTON DC & DAVID LEARMOUNT / LONDON
Rutan and Virgin plan tourist trips
Scaled Composites lands five-vehicle deal for SpaceShipOne, but major design changes may be needed
Burt Rutans SpaceShipOne team
enters this week with a newly
minted licensing deal for five vehi
c...
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 ...EADLINES
SPACEFLIGHT STEPHEN TRIMBLE / WASHINGTON DC & TIM FURNISS / LONDON
Rutan confident of September success
As Scaled Composites prepares to bid for the X-Prize, US Congress debate rages over definition of "suborbital vehicle"
Scaled Composites intends to bid
for the $10 million Ansari X Prize
in late Septe...
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 ...European dealership for its
Columbia 300. Certification
of the all-composite light air
craft in Germany is planned
for late next year.
Scaled Technology signs for Cessna Citation composite work
Scaled Composites says Bravo to Cessna deal
SCALED TECHNOLOGY Works (STW), sister company
ofBurtRutan's Scaled Composites,
has signed an agreement with
Cessna to supply composite struc
tures for ...
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 ...h, granted in 1992. •
See Business, P22.
M-309 launch marks composite first
GUY NORRIS /MOJAVE
AN ALL-COMPOSITE, six-seat twin developed in secret
by Colorado-based Adam Aircraft
Industries and Scaled Composites,
was unveiled on 5 April at the
Californian manufacturer's Mo-
jave site. The aircraft represents a
breakthrough in manufacturing
techniques, according to Scaled
Composites pres...
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 ...out to start cannon trials (Picture by Craig Schmitman)
engine thrust after landing, and
Shane says: "We are touching
down at low speeds, but we are
using up a lot of runway to get
it stopped".
Scaled Composites is not yet
marketing the privately funded
ARES, although several poten
tial customers have flown the
prototype, including the deputy
commander of the US Navy's
Air Systems Comm...
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 ...N THE
Burt Rutan and his Scaled Composites workshop
in California have turned out a prodigious number
of unconventional aircraft designs. Now owned by
Wyman Gordon, the company is venturing into
new territory with its
AR...
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 ... was being lost because of
advances in composites, which now often
replaced large metal forgings.
Walsh decided to diversify, and first
bought an investment-casting company be
fore moving in for Scaled Composites,
which he saw as an ideal prototyping
workshop for designs which could be pro
duced by other parts of the company. This
was made possible by the take-over of KDI,
a composites m...
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 ... operated
by a specially trained US Air Force mobile
decoy unit. The BQM-74's simulation
capability, which allows the target to
represent a bomber or cruise missile,
allowed its use as a decoy.
SCALED COMPOSITES
Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites is known
to be working on two UAV projects. The
company is building the Tilt-Body close-
range UAV for Freewing Aircraft, with a
demonstrator sched...
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 ...eech
buys Rutan
technology
WICHITA
Scaled Composites, Burt
Rutan's specialist composite
design and manufacturing
company, has been bought by
Beech for "an undisclosed
cash sum" according to Glenn
Ehling, executive vice-
president...
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 .... If everything goes
ahead as planned, the projected
funding costs could be less than
$90 million."
Details of terms under discussion
with Mojave, California-based
design and prototyping house
Scaled Composites have not been
disclosed. If an agreement is
reached, Scaled Composites would
incorporate structural modifica
tions into the PoC. These will
include stretching the fuselage by
u...
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 ...risk-
sharing projects is "questionable",
admits Avcorp. It has submitted a
bid to supply the tail section of
Bombardier's planned Continental
mid-size business jet. G
Precision Castparts leaves Scaled Composites on tenterhooks
PRECISION CASTPARTS (PCC) says that it has yet to
decide whether to keep Wyman-
Gordon's Scaled Composites sub
sidiary once its acquisition of the
forgings special...
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 ...so minimises land overflight and sonic
booms. The liquid-oxygen/kerosene aero
spike engine uses a rotor for the centrifugal
pumping of propellants to pressurise the
engine's combustion chambers.
Scaled Composites will be the integrat
ing contractor.
KELLY SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY
San Bernardino, California: Michael Kelly.
Kelly - founded by two former TRW exec
utives - is developing the Ecli...
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 ...
on the Gulfstream IV-SP,
beginning in January.
Visionaire rolls out Vantage
GUY NORRIS/LOS ANGELES
VISIONAIRE ROLLED out its Vantage six-seat, proof-of-
concept business jet on 8 No
vember from Scaled Composites'
Mojave site in California.
Firm orders for "nearly 50 Van
tages, representing sales in excess
of $75 million", have been booked
to date, says VisionAire founder,
chairman and ...
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 ...rboprop regulations were
to be relaxed. •
Visionaire kicks off Vantage testing
VISIONAIRE HAS BEGUN flight-testing its single-eng-
ined Vantage business jet with a
first flight on 16 November at
Scaled Composites in Mojave,
California. Test pilot and director
of operations at Scaled Com
posites, Doug Shane, says that the
aircraft was taken to 10,000ft
(3,200m) and ".. .performed as well ...
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 ...turns interest
GRAHAM WARWICK/WASHINGTON DC
BURT RUTAN is evaluating two requests to take his
Boomerang asymmetrical twin
into production. The twin-boom
aircraft was originally built by
Rutan's Scaled Composites as a
one-off personal transport.
Rutan says that he would make
changes to the Boomerang before
it entered production. These
include a lower wing-loading;
intercooled engines, p...
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 ...ased on analysis of Spirit's
touchdown, NASA is fine-tuning
plans for the 25 January landing of
the second rover, Opportunity.
TESTING MAX KINGSLEY-JONES / MOJAVE
SpaceShipOne undergoes repairs
Scaled Composites is not making
any changes to its SpaceShipOne
after the suborbital vehicle suffered
a gear collapse at the end of its last
flight on 17 December, which the
company says was a re...
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