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	Scaled Composites Inc. White Knight and Spaceship One
		White Knight is a turbo-jet aircraft, and Spaceship one, is of course, rocket-powered.
		Scaled Composites is fully funded by billionaire Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft.
		It seems likely that Scaled Composites will win the X-Prize soon, since the remaining testing consists only of extending the test regime to longer burn times until the required height is reached.
	www.spacefleet.org.uk /xpteams/scaled-composites.htm (474 words)

	ROCKETS ON THE CHEAP: Historic Launch
		The launch system created by Scaled Composites for the June 21 launch could be the first brave steps towards creating a space flight system that can achieve orbital velocity, at a fraction of the current cost.
		Scaled Composites' launch system consists of two stages: a carrier aircraft, the White Knight, and a second stage rocket, SpaceShipOne (SS1).
		The White Knight is a manned, twin-turbojet research aircraft intended for high-altitude missions.
	www.military.com /soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_Launch,,00.html (1460 words)

	Howstuffworks "How SpaceShipOne Works"
		The White Knight is a turbofan-powered airplane that carries the SpaceShipOne up to 45 to 50,000 feet so that we can start our space flight from a relatively high position in the atmosphere where the air's already pretty thin.
		SpaceShipOne is described by Scaled Composites as a "three-place, high-altitude research rocket, designed for sub-orbital flights to 100 km altitude." Perhaps one of the most amazing things about SpaceShipOne is the fact that it transforms into three different configurations during the course of its flight.
		Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen are spearheading the effort to prove that safe, economical, commercial space travel is possible.
	science.howstuffworks.com /spaceshipone.htm/printable (4000 words)

	FLUG REVUE Aircraft Gallery: Scaled Composites White Knight / SpaceShip One
		The White Knight airborne launch platform and the SpaceShipOne rocket-propelled spaceplane are designed to conduct suborbital passenger flights to a height of around 100 km, in an attempt to win the X-Prize.
		The composite nitrous tank and case/ throat/ nozzle components were developed at Scaled, with Thiokol providing the tank's filament wound over- wrap, and AAE Aerospace supplying the ablative nozzle.
		White Knight, SpaceShipOne and the other elements of the programme were officially unveiled on 18 April 2003 at Mojave, California.
	www.flug-revue.rotor.com /FRTypen/FRSSOne.htm (705 words)

	Scaled Composites'' White Knight Doubles as Testbed
		It was mounted vertically on the White Knight centerline pylon, aligned with the direction of flight.
		The White Knight's only purpose was to carry SpaceShipOne to high altitude, but it was designed also to mature many SSO systems and serve as a trainer for the spaceship's pilots (AW&ST Apr. 21, 2003, p.
		High-altitude White Knight flights led to critical modifications of both the SSO and its carrier aircraft.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/aw112706p1.xml&source=rss (1788 words)

	Scaled Composites White Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight is a jet-powered carrier aircraft used to launch the SpaceShipOne experimental spacecraft.
		Afterwards White Knight was used to carry and launch DARPA's experimental X-37 spaceplane for its approach and landing tests in 2005 and 2006.
		White Knight was contracted to perform both captive carry and drop test flights of the DARPA/Boeing X-37.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight (603 words)

	Scaled Composites White Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		SpaceShipOne and White Knight during a [[captive carry test flight]] The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight is a jet-powered carrier aircraft used to launch the SpaceShipOne experimental spacecraft.
		With White Knight developed and evaluated, on April 18 2003 White Knight and SpaceShipOne were presented to the media.
		On September 2, 2004 it was reported that White Knight would be used to launch DARPA's experimental X-37 spaceplane for its approach and landing tests, probably starting in early 2005.
	scaled-composites-white-knight.iqnaut.net (437 words)

	Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
		In 2003 Scaled Composites, an aircraft company founded by Burt Rutan, made headlines with their entry into the contest.
		Carried beneath White Knight to 50,000 ft., SpaceShipOne is released to fly under its own power to the 100 km.
		White Knight model - German designer Jan Müller has designed a beautiful model of the White Knight carrier plane in 1:48 scale.
	www.currell.net /models/ss1.htm (715 words)

	E-Composites, Inc. for Market Reports, News and Business Solutions
		Scaled Composites in Mojave, California is in the deep design stage of a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft.
		Scaled Composites, LLC is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, some 80 miles north of Los Angeles.
		Scaled is primarily focused on air vehicle design, tooling, manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis, fabrication and developmental flight test.
	www.e-composites.com /frontend/newspage.aspx?sno=3041 (406 words)

	The Real Dream of Space
		Scaled Composites and its 20 employees ought to open wide the eyes of a skeptical, cynical and increasingly violent world to the possibilities that exist in individual and small team efforts to overcome seemingly impossible tasks, formerly the territory of only corporate monoliths and enormous government.
		The carrier craft, White Knight, looks like a gangly albatross, yet seems so delicate as to be ready to fold up at any minute.
		I hope the example set by companies such as Scaled Composites, with its dream machine of SpaceShipOne, once again light a fire under the people to tell the government to get out of trying to strangle and tax to death the people and the private enterprises that are the true power behind the American Dream.
	www.freecolorado.com /2004/10/spacedream.html (1622 words)

	SPACE.com -- Passenger-Carrying Spaceship Makes Desert Debut
		Labeled as the SpaceShipOne Project, Scaled Composites, Inc. has worked aggressively on a passenger-carrying sub-orbital craft for two years.
		Experts at Scaled Composites are confident they've designed a system that supports suborbital flight - drawing from earlier aircraft design work, particularly the high-altitude Proteus vehicle.
		Scaled Composites has been working with SpaceDev of Poway, California to evaluate use of a hybrid rocket propulsion system for the SpaceShipOne program.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/rutan_scaled_0304187.html (1297 words)

	CNN.com - White Knight carries X-37 aloft - Jun 23, 2005
		At the Mojave, California Spaceport Scaled Composites' White Knight carrier plane had previously taken the X-37 for repeated runs down the runway -- all in preparation for today's liftoff and return landing of the twosome.
		It was one year ago to the day that the White Knight released SpaceShipOne for its first suborbital run, piloted by Mike Melville.
		Designed by Scaled Composites, the multi-purpose White Knight was used to haul that firm's SpaceShipOne to altitude for release.
	www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/space/06/23/white.knight/index.html (307 words)

	White knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White knight, a generic term for a Knight-errant, Paladin or "knight in shining armor"
		Scaled Composites White Knight, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, the privately funded experimental spacecraft that won the X-prize
		White Knight, one of the founders of L0pht and a member of hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_knight (313 words)

	CNN.com - White Knight prepares for new mission - May 31, 2005
		At the Mojave, California inland spaceport, the White Knight mothership has been involved in fit and high-speed taxi checks with a new passenger -- the X-37, an unpiloted, reusable space plane.
		Designed by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, the White Knight was utilized to haul SpaceShipOne to altitude and then released the piloted rocketplane for its record-setting suborbital treks, including the snagging of the high-stakes $10 million Ansari X Prize last year.
		In its new role, the White Knight is being readied to carry the Boeing, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA-supported vehicle skyward.
	www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/space/05/31/white.knight/index.html (607 words)

	Wired 11.07: The Right Stuff
		Rutan's smiling face is turned skyward, his bodacious Elvis-like white sideburns whipping in the desert wind.
		White Knight, designed by aerospace maverick Burt Rutan to carry a manned suborbital ship to its high-altitude launch zone and kick off a private rocket revolution.
		But Burt Rutan is known as a fast-moving aeronautical genius, and White Knight isn't just an airplane, it's a mother ship, stage one of the first new manned space program to be unveiled since the space shuttle in 1981.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.07/space.html (1176 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		At the Mojave, California Spaceport Scaled Composites' White Knight carrier plane had previously taken the X-37 for repeated runs down the runway — all in preparation for today's liftoff and return landing of the twosome.
		Designed by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, the White Knight was utilized to haul SpaceShipOne to altitude and then released the piloted rocketplane for its record-setting suborbital treks, including the snagging of the high-stakes $10 million Ansari X Prize...
		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=whiteknight (1272 words)

	Unusual and Concept Aircraft
		Advanced Technology Aircraft Company contracted with Scaled Composites to design and build a proof-of-concept crop-duster.
		White Knight was developed as the mothership to SpaceShipOne, the first private spaceship which won the ANSARI X-Prize.
		The 151 ARES (Agile Responsive Effective Support) was developed by Burt Rutan as a low cost fighter.
	www.diseno-art.com /encyclopedia/archive/concept_aircraft.html (652 words)

	Scaled Composites White Knight Two - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scaled Composites' White Knight Two or Eve is the first stage of Tier 1b, a two-stage to suborbital-space manned launch system.
		WK2 is based on the successful White Knight mothership to SpaceShipOne, which itself is based on Proteus.
		The VLA is also designed by Rutan's Scaled Composites, and will be used by T/Space to conduct in-air drop launches of orbital rockets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight_Two (379 words)

	Scaled Composites, LLC: composite aircraft design, prototyping and flight test
		Scaled Composites would like to thank all those who have sent their prayers and good wishes to Engineer/Test Pilot Chuck Coleman, who suffered serious injuries when his Extra 300 aircraft crashed on 16 August 2006, while he was practicing an aerobatic routine for an air show.
		Scaled Composites, LLC is an aerospace and specialty composites development company located in Mojave, California (about 80 miles north of Los Angeles).
		Founded in 1982 by Burt Rutan, Scaled has broad experience in air vehicle design, tooling, manufacturing, specialty composite structure design, analysis, fabrication and developmental flight test.
	www.scaled.com (213 words)

	SpaceShipOne 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Before the White Knight and StarShipOne took off, a couple of chase planes got into the air, including this executive transport manufactured by Beech Aircraft.
		The White Knight drops SpaceShipOne when they reached an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15 kilometers), and it takes 30 or 40 minutes for them to reach this altitude.
		Not to be outdone, the White Knight also does a victory pass.
	www.richard-seaman.com /Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004 (1503 words)

	X-37 takes to sky with White Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		Instead, DARPA contracted with Scaled Composites for use of the White Knight aircraft for the drop tests.
		The futuristic White Knight is best known as the carrier aircraft specifically designed to air-launch the SpaceShipOne spacecraft, the first privately funded manned space program to successfully launch an astronaut to suborbital space.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1428395/posts (758 words)

	spacetoday.net: SpaceShipOne completes fourth drop test
		SpaceShipOne (SS1), a suborbital RLV being developed by Scaled Composites, successfully completed its fourth unpowered drop test earlier this month, correcting a problem noticed in a drop test last month.
		According to the flight report on Scaled's web site, SS1 did not experience any problems with unexpected pitching up of the vehicle's nose; such a problem was experienced on the last glide test last month, causing the vehicle to briefly enter a roll until the pilot stabilized the vehicle.
		Scaled credited the improved performance to a series of ground tests performed with an impromptu wind tunnel: a pickup truck with the SS1 tail assembly mounted on it.
	www.spacetoday.net /Summary/1991 (247 words)

	SpaceShipOne & White Knight - 1/48 Scale Mahogany Model
		Scaled Composites Spaceship One and launch plane White Knight on the tarmac at Mojave Spaceport/Airport.
		Above are pictures of the SS1 pilots signing a Silent Thunder Models SpaceShipOne and White Knight model for a customer.
		This model is hand painted with no decals and configured complete with launch plane White Knight carrying SpaceShipOne, including the SpaceShipOne logo in color etched brass on the display base.
	www.silentthundermodels.com /special/spaceshipone.html (299 words)

	SpaceShipOne with White Knight Desktop Replica
		In June 2004, Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne became the first privately-funded crewed vehicle to reach space.
		Its carrier aircraft, White Knight, continues to be used for test flights, including for NASA's X-37 demonstration spaceplane.
		This 1:40 scale model, imported from the Philippines, is handcrafted from wood.
	www.countdowncreations.com /replssonewk.htm (117 words)

	Air launch at AllExperts
		Most recently, the B-52 was used to launch the X-43 hypersonic testbed aircraft, and the Scaled Composites White Knight carried SpaceShipOne to altitude before its suborbital flight.
		The Pegasus rocket is an air launched orbital spacecraft, flown from a Lockheed L-1011.
		The Ansari X-Prize $10 Million purse was won by a team led by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, launching the SpaceShipOne from the purpose-built White Knight carrier aircraft.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/ai/air_launch.htm (597 words)

	Telstar Logistics: Air
		And to that list we'd add one often-overlooked creation: White Knight, Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites mothership aircraft that was designed to carry his SpaceShip One rocket orbiter into the skies.
		Part tow truck and part space capsule -- with a healthy dose of MacGyver and Make magazine thrown in to keep it real -- White Knight is a remarkably successful piece of engineering that's both strikingly simple and incredibly sophisticated.
		Even if it never left the ground, White Night would be just as much at home on display in the MoMA as it would in the Air and Space Museum.
	telstarlogistics.typepad.com /telstarlogistics/air/index.html (4460 words)

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