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	Scaled Composites: Bell Eagle Eye TiltRotor UAV
		Scaled Composites was selected to design and fabricate the composite structure for the two demonstrator airframes, including the landing gear, and to integrate Bell-supplied propulsion and flight control systems.
		All of the hard points and mounts were installed by Scaled and all the system components including engine, transmissions, oil coolers, avionics, flight control systems, flaps, and control surfaces were mounted and checked for clearance, interference and fit in the fuselage structure before the vehicles were delivered to Bell.
		Scaled Composites also manufactured and integrated all the landing gear components for both vehicles.
	www.scaled.com /projects/eagleye.html (479 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Burt Rutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He is most famous for his design of the record -breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004.
		Proteus in flight The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays.
		Scaled Composites Model 202 Boomerang The Scaled Composites Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, and built by his company, Scaled Composites.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Burt-Rutan (2592 words)

	Scaled Composites Voyager - long-range record plane
		The Rutan Voyager which was conceived in 1981 would in one flight become the first aircraft to fly nonstop around the world without refuelling, so breaking the records for the longest timed flight and the longest distance flight.
		Construction of the Voyager began in 1982 at Mohave in California, with the project being funded by private means and donations.
		The Voyager, crewed by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, required the full length of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in order to lift off at 08:01 Pacific time on 14 December 1986, and the wobble of the wings caused their tips to scrape the runway.
	avia.russian.ee /air/usa/rutan_voyager.php (605 words)

	www.techno-science.net :: Voir le sujet - [Dossier] Le Global Flyer et autres appareils surprenants de Burt Rutan
		Le voyager fit son premier vol le 22 juin 1984 mais dut attendre 1 an et 6 mois avant de pouvoir faire sa tentative de tour du monde.
		C’est ainsi que le Voyager et son concepteur entrèrent dans l’histoire de l’aviation en établissant pour la première fois un tour du monde en avion sans escale et sans ravitaillement.
		Scaled Composites et les autres avions de Burt Rutan
	www.techno-science.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2113 (2785 words)

	Scaled Composites
		It was a bold innovation in aviation design, merging a state-of-the-art lightweight composite airframe with twin rear pusher-propellers, a swept-forward wing, and an innovative variable-sweep forward horizontal stabilizer (called a foreplane or canard) that changed configuration to compensate for the aerodynamic changes during flight.
		(Scaled Composites was later acquired by the Wyman-Gordon Company in January 1989, and Burt Rutan was retained as the company's president and CEO).
		The all-composite Starship lacked a conventional tail—using rudders on upturned fins or winglets at the end of each wing to provide directional control and stability in addition to a variable-sweep canard.
	www.pilotfriend.com /acft_manu/rutan.htm (1085 words)

	Scaled Composites
		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 test.
		It is best known for its design and manufacture of the SpaceShipOne space plane, which won the Ansari X Prize, and the super-fuel efficient, lightweight GlobalFlyer and Voyager aircraft, which hold the current and previous world non-stop distance records for powered planes.
		Among Scaled's current projects are development of the Virgin Galactic spaceship passenger-carrying space plane.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Scaled_Composites.html (172 words)

	Voyager
		Scaled Composites Voyager, the first airplane to fly around the world without refueling
		The Chrysler Voyager, historically the second MPV after Renault's Espace, but nr 1 as numbers of cars built are considered.
		Earth Star Voyager, a television series pilot that aired on the Wonderful World of Walt Disney in 1988.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/vo/Voyager.htm (280 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Aircraft Museum - Rutan Voyager
		Disaster nearly struck even before the Voyager became airborne when the heavy fuel load so weighed down the wings that the tips scraped along the runway during the takeoff run.
		Although the damaged tips resulted in greater drag, Voyager was maneuvered by ground personnel into regions of higher tail winds to compensate for the loss of performance.
		Voyager was then disassembled and donated to the National Air & Space Museum where the aircraft is now on display.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /aircraft/research/voyager (566 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rutan Voyager
		The Voyager was built mainly by a group of volunteers working under both the Rutan Aircraft Factory and an organization set up under the name Voyager Aircraft (it was not, as is sometimes believed, built by Scaled Composites).
		Voyager was built in Mojave, California, over a period of 5 years.
		The Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer was a jet-powered aircraft also designed by Burt Rutan and built by Scaled Composites, in which Steve Fossett made the first solo nonstop flight around the world in 2005.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Voyager (603 words)

	Flightpath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When all was said and done Voyager weighed in at a mere 426kg (939lbs).
		On December 14, 1986, Voyager, piloted by Burt’s older brother Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards Air Force Base, California.
		Flying at an average altitude of 3353m (11,000ft), Voyager circumnavigated the globe, a total of 42212km (26,229miles), returning to Edwards in a time of 9 days 3 minutes and 44seconds.
	www.exn.ca /flightpath/plane.asp?ID=49 (293 words)

	Voyager
		The Scaled Composites Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refuel- ing.
		The Voyager flew westerly 26,366 statute miles (42,432 km; the FAI accredited dis- tance is 40,212 km) at an average altitude of 11,000 ft. This broke a previous record set by a United States Air Force crew piloting a Boeing
		The Voyager was first conceived by Jeana Yeager, Dick and his brother Burt Rutan in 1981.
	www.aviationtrivia.homestead.com /Voyager.html (870 words)

	GlobalFlyer poised for longest flight in history - mech-tech - 27 January 2006 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Both Voyager and GlobalFlyer were designed by Dick's brother, Burt Rutan, who also designed the SpaceShipOne craft that won the X-Prize.
		The longest voyage by any kind of aircraft was the 41,978 km (26,100 miles) balloon flight by Breitling Orbiter in 1999.
		In designing the plane, Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites used detailed computer analysis of fluid dynamics to optimise the unusual trimaran aircraft for maximum range and fuel efficiency.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn8641 (549 words)

	Rutan Aircraft Designs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Designed for maximum fuel efficiency, the twin-engine Voyager was completely constructed from composite materials, including an airframe weighing only 939 pounds (426 kilograms) and a main wing so bendable that the tip flexed three to five feet (0.9 to 1.5 meters) while in flight.
		The Voyager is now on permanent display in the main gallery of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., alongside such other famous aircraft as the Wright Flyer and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.
		Burt Rutan expanded his successful experiments with composite materials to larger-scale projects with the formation of Scaled Composites, Inc., in 1982, for the design, fabrication, and flight testing of prototype aircraft projects for both the government and private industry.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/GENERAL_AVIATION/rutan/GA15.htm (1156 words)

	Dropzone.com Skydive Forums: Community: The Bonfire: What I love about Scaled Composites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Well, sure if ANYONE is going to put a privately funded man in space it's going to be Scaled Composites, but check out THIS cockpit photo of their mothership called the "White Knight".
		Voyager, around the world on one tank of gas, one built hanging in the smithsonian.
		Scaled has loved to use the glass cockpit concept and the circle windows for years.
	www.dropzone.com /forum/Community_C7/The_Bonfire_F1/What_I_love_about_Scaled_Composites_P454235 (1739 words)

	R & D Magazine
		Scaled Composites is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, Calif. Founded in April 1982 by Burt Rutan, Scaled has a broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling and manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis and fabrication, and developmental flight testing.
		In June 1985, Scaled was sold to Beech Aircraft Corp., acquired by Wyman-Gordon Co., North Grafton, Mass., in January 1989, and then sold to 11 private investors (including Rutan) in September 2000.
		The most notable was Beech’s Model 2000 Starship, an all-composite craft that used rudders on upturned “winglets” at the end of each wing (instead of a conventional tail), in addition to a variable-sweep canard.
	www.rdmag.com /ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000100&ISSUE=0408&RELTYPE=PR&ORIGRELTYPE=CVS&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=BC (1143 words)

	Scaled Composites, LLC: composite aircraft design, prototyping and flight test
		Scaled Composites, LLC: composite aircraft design, prototyping and flight test
		Pegasus · Proteus · Raptor · Roton · SpaceShipOne · Triumph · V-Jet II · Vantage · Voyager
		The following are highlights of our government, commercial and purpose built projects that we have completed over the years.
	www.scaled.com /projects (81 words)

	Goleta Air and Space Museum: Rutan and Scale Composites
		Scaled Composites' Triumph all-composite, 8-passenger business jet graces the lawn in front of their hangar on March 23, 2003.
		Scaled Composites engineering personnel carefully examined the launch profile and developed a composite structure that would meet the OSC performance goals in a cost-effective manner.
		Scaled Composites is also responsible for the fabrication and test of the Pegasus tail fins.
	www.air-and-space.com /Rutan.htm (2549 words)

	Burt Rutan Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		In the early 1980s, just as he was formulating plans with his brother for the Voyager aircraft, Rutan founded Scaled Composites Inc., a company that designs and develops research aircraft.
		Scaled Composites primarily makes proprietary model products for the world's general aviation and military aircraft manufacturers.
		The Proteus is an all-composite canard aircraft with a 79-foot wingspan that can be expanded to 92 feet, depending on the requirements of its mission or payload.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/burt-rutan (1738 words)

	Happy Fun Pundit: Scaled Composites
		Scaled Composites is proof that you don't need large bureaucracies or governments to build exciting, innovative aircraft and space vehicles.
		Scaled Composites started about 25 years ago as a small two-man shop making plans for homebuilt aircraft.
		Among Scaled Composite's accomplishments: They built the Voyager, the first aircraft to fly around the world non-stop.
	www.happyfunpundit.com /hfp/archives/000389.html (306 words)

	The Space Fellowship :: Scaled Composites - GlobalFlyer
		It seems Scaled Composites are not only looking at the x-prize, but one of their other planes is also going to make a new record:
		A plane called Voyager, which carried two pilots, completed the challenge for the first time in 1986.
		Scaled Composite are starting to take centre stage of the new advanced aerospace world.
	www.spacefellowship.com /Forum/post-10760.html (551 words)

	LUNAR'clips - X-Prize Scaled Composites and Pioneer Rocketplane
		Voyager was the first plane to fly around the world without refueling.
		Rutan and his Scaled Composites team () may be the most well-known entrants into the X PRIZE, but they face stiff competition from many of the other 23 entrants.
		The X PRIZE competition launch system proposed by Scaled Composites (SC) consists of two stages: a carrier aircraft, the White Knight, and a second stage rocket, SpaceShipOne (SS1).
	www.lunar.org /docs/LUNARclips/v10/v10n3/xprize.shtml (1138 words)

	Scaled Composites at AllExperts
		Scaled Composites (often abbreviated as Scaled), formerly the Rutan Aircraft Factory, is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California and is headed by famous aircraft designer Burt Rutan.
		Scaled Composites was established in 1982 and purchased by the Beech Aircraft Corporation in 1985, as a result of the colaboration on the Starship project.
		Although the role was not widely publicized, Scaled also manufactured the 1988 Stars & Stripes catamaran for Dennis Conner's entry of that year in the America's Cup yacht race.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sc/scaled_composites.htm (890 words)

	Scaled Composites - NewMars
		Scaled Composites, is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California.
		They are renowned for their use of composite construction to build experimental aircraft for industry and for their high quality kit aircraft for home builders.
		However, they have had many prior accomplishments, including the construction and successful flight of the Voyager airplane, which was the first manned aircraft to fly around the world without refueling.
	www.newmars.com /wiki/index.php?title=Scaled_Composites&redirect=no (186 words)

	Voyager index: Voyager Photo Gallery Contact Sheet
		The Voyager aircraft landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California, to complete it's record breaking, nonstop unfueled flight around the world.
		The Voyager landed at Edwards at 8:06 a.m.
		Voyager took off from Edwards Dec. 14 and traveled at an average speed of 115.8 mph.
	www.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/photo/Voyager/HTML/index.html (240 words)

	MEMBRANA \| GlobalFlyer: миллионер готов в одиночку облететь Землю (версия ...
		Нужно заметить — все машины, построенные Рутаном и его компанией Scaled Composites, неповторимы.
		И именно Рутан создал Voyager первый самолёт, облетевший в 1986 году нашу планету без посадки и дозаправки.
		Voyager, к слову, располагал двумя поршневыми моторами и, соответственно, винтами.
	www.membrana.ru /print.html?1078858860 (486 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The spacecraft, the creation of designer extraordinaire Burt Rutan and his Scaled Composites team, will hang suspended between Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the first aircraft to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic.
		Slung beneath Scaled Composites' White Knight carrier, the X-37 was carried to an altitude of 37,800 feet in the 81-minute flight, said Jan Walker, spokesman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which oversees the program.
		Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne already has flown two successful flights firing its hybrid rocket motor and is widely seen as the front-runner in the international competition intended to jump-start the commercial space tourism industry.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=scaledcomposites (2423 words)

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